Alexander Fleming and penicillin maroon plaque

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# St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street Standing before St Mary's Hospital on Praed Street, you're at the threshold of one of medicine's most consequential accidents. In September 1928, in a modest second-storey laboratory directly above where this plaque now hangs, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fle...

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St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, W2

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Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 discovered penicillin in the second storey room above this plaque