Suschitzky lives long enough to see his iconic photo honored - UNBUTCHERED by Oxford University

One hundred years young last month, a world famous photographer finally saw his most iconic photo signally honored by Britain's National Portrait Gallery - and displayed unbutchered as well !

Wolfgang Suschitzky took it in 1944 : four famous penicillin chemists around a table at Oxford University.

But after one of chemists - a man named Wilson Baker (a wartime pacifist to boot) - left Oxford for another university, his image was removed by someone at the university and a much more famous person -albeit a non-chemist- Baron Howard Florey, was crudely added.

Oxford then touted this re-writing of history as the real thing .

Stalin could learn a thing or two from Oxford University

If only Stalin could make a Commissar vanish as quietly as Oxford did to its errant chemist !

Now on his one hundredth birthday, the NPG has made this - unbutchered - photo its image of the month.

Isn't about time for the elders at Oxford to start applying to themselves what they apply to their teenager undergrads ; the rules regarding plagiarism ?