Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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PENICILLIN. Chem. A powerful antibiotic drug discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), of Darvel in Ayrshire, bacteriologist, Professor in the University of London, who named it from Penicillium, the mould from which it was first prepared (1929 British Jnl. of Experimental Pathology X. 226).
