The drug was invented by Dr Stewart Adams, who began his career at a Boots store in Cambridgeshire.
Dr Stewart Adams, photographed here in 1970, told the BBC in 2015 what he was most pleased about was that hundreds of millions of people worldwide are taking the drug he discoveredStewart Adams, who invented the painkiller with his associate John Nicholson, realised it workedDavid Edwards, from the town's museum, said his talent was spotted and "he was soon transferred" to Boots' Nottingham headquarters.
Dr Adams arrived in March as a 14-year-old in 1937, when his father transferred to a job in the locomotive running department - the town had one of the biggest marshalling yards in Europe. After two years at the town's grammar school, he took up an apprenticeship in retail pharmacy run by his local Boots.
March and District Museum volunteer and archivist Mr Edwards said once he was moved to Nottingham "he was given some sort of scholarship to Nottingham University".
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