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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, March 20, 1946

The Chemical Structure of the Penicillins

 

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

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