Signed & Inscribed Photograph To Arnold Sorsby

A Photograph of Alexander Fleming sitting in his laboratory with a large bottle of penicillin visible on the table at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington, London, 1943. Signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "To my friend Arnold Sorsby, with kind regards, Alexander Fleming 1953." A Vintage glossy Photograph. 8 x 6.5 inches. Very good. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder. Certified by John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA.

Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist (1881–1955) who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his role in the discovery and isolation of penicillin. This photograph was taken in 1943, an important year in the development of penicillin, as large-scale manufacturing techniques were being introduced. (Alexander Fleming Biography, Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Foundation, 1945.)

The recipient, Dr. Arnold Sorsby, was a noted Polish-British ophthalmologist and surgeon (1900-1980) who wrote a chapter in Penicillin: Its Practical Application, a book edited by Fleming, published in 1946. In 1949, Dr. Arnold Sorsby, together with Mary E. Joll Mason, published the first description of a rare genetic retinal dystrophy, now known as Sorsby's fundus dystrophy. Sorsby served as a Surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital from 1931 to 1966, as Dean of the Royal Eye Hospital's Medical School from 1934 to 1938, and as Research Professor at the Royal Eye Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons from 1943 to 1966. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Genetics from 1964 to 1969. (Sorsby, Arnold, 1900-1980, Plarr's Lives Of the Fellows, March 2015.)

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