Alexander Fleming's penicillin mould sold for ₹10 lakh
A 90-year-old disc of mould created by Sir Alexander Fleming to make the world's first penicillin was recently auctioned off for $14,597 (approximately ₹9.74 lakh). It features an inscription by Fleming on the back, identifying it as "the mould that first made penicillin". Penicillin's discovery and first successful isolation in 1928 won Fleming the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1945.