Gwyn Macfarlane's biographical research on Alexander Fleming and on the development of penicillin | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Gwyn Macfarlane's biographical research on Alexander Fleming and on the development of penicillin

Shelfmark

MSS. 12387/1-6

Summary

Gwyn Macfarlane's research for his biography of the bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming, published as Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth (Oxford University Press, 1985).

Date

c. 1909-1986

Language

English

Physical extent

1.0 Linear metres

6 physical shelfmarks

Acquisition

Transferred from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, March 2017.

Subject

Science

Women scientists

Medicine -- History

Science -- History -- 20th century

20th century

Medicine -- England -- Oxford -- History

Penicillin -- History

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