Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discovered penicillin in the second storey room above this plaque.
Site: Sir Alexander Fleming - W2 (1 memorial)
W2, Praed Street, St Mary's Hospital
Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker, Alan Patient
Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discovered penicillin in the second storey room above this plaque.
W2, Praed Street, St Mary's Hospital
Credit for this entry to: Bob Baker, Alan Patient
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Alexander Fleming - W2
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered pe...
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS, discovered the first aniline dyestuff, March 1856, while working in his home laboratory on this site and w...
Exactly a year after he died, Forsyth's ashes were laid to rest under the stage at the London Palladium in a private ceremony, and a blue...
Plaque unveiled by Sir Richard Branson and David Bickers (Bader's son-in-law).
English Heritage Henry Pelham, c 1695 - 1754, Prime Minister, lived here.