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Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

A grand brick building with arched windows and a central entrance featuring a black door and flanking lanterns, topped by a decorative pediment and cross, stands as the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, a research department of the University of Oxford.

A research department of the University of Oxford, established 1927 with a bequest from the banker Sir William Dunn. Under Howard Florey from 1935, it became the laboratory in which penicillin was purified, tested in mice and humans, and worked up for industrial production. The building still stands on South Parks Road; the original fermentation vessels were repurposed bedpans and biscuit tins.

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