Inscriptions: Penicillin
This inscription in the Rose Garden in front of the Botanic Garden in Oxford reads:
THIS ROSE GARDEN WAS GIVEN
IN HONOUR
OF THE RESEARCH
WORKERS IN THIS UNIVERSITY WHO
DISCOVERED THE CLINICAL
IMPORTANCE OF PENICILLIN
FOR SAVING OF LIFE, RELIEF OF
SUFFERING AND INSPIRATION
TO FURTHER RESEARCH ALL
MANKIND
IS IN THEIR DEBT
THOSE WHO DID THIS WORK WERE
E P ABRAHAM E CHAIN
C M fLETCHER H W FLOREY
M E FLOREY A D GARDNER
N G HEATLEY M A JENNINGS
J ORR-EWING A G SANDERS
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Presented by the
ALBERT and MARY LASKER FOUNDATION
New York June 1953