by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc. In a subsequent radio broadcast, Churchill referred to the new drug as "This admirable M&B". It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with a British discovery, penicillin. See also People on Scottish banknotes References Further reading The Life Of Sir Alexander Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1959. Maurois, André. Nobel Lectures, the Physiology or Medicine 1942–1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964 An Outline History of Medicine. London: Butterworths, 1985. Rhodes, Philip. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Porter, Roy, ed. Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution, Stroud, Sutton, 2004. Brown, Kevin. Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984. Macfarlane, Gwyn Fleming, Discoverer of Penicillin, Ludovici, Laurence J., 1952 The Penicillin Man: the Story of Sir Alexander Fleming, Lutterworth Press, 1957, Rowland, John. External links Alexander Fleming Obituary including the Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1945 Penicillin Some places and memories related to Alexander Fleming 1881 births 1955 deaths Scottish military personnel People from East Ayrshire People educated at Kilmarnock Academy 20th-century biologists British Army personnel of World War I Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the University of Westminster Academics of Imperial College London Academics of the University of London Burials at St Paul's Cathedral Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Knights Bachelor Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise Rectors of the University of Edinburgh Royal Army Medical Corps officers Scottish bacteriologists Scottish biologists Scottish inventors Scottish knights 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish Freemasons Scottish microbiologists Scottish Nobel laureates Scottish pharmacologists London Scottish soldiers Scottish surgeons Alumni of St Mary's Hospital Medical School People from Forest Heath (district) Physicians of Guy's Hospital Physicians of St Mary's Hospital, London