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Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist.His best known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with ...

Alexander Fleming | Biography, Education, Discovery

Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin in 1928, which started the antibiotic revolution. He was recognized for that achievement in 1945, when he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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Alexander Fleming (1881–1955): Discoverer of penicillin

BEGINNINGS. On August 6, 1881, Alexander Fleming was born to Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton in Lochfield Farm, Scotland. Initially schooled in Scotland, Fleming eventually moved to London with three brothers and a sister, and completed his youth education at the Regent Street Polytechnic.

Alexander Fleming Discovery and Development of Penicillin

memorative Booklet (PDF) The introduction of penicillin in the 1940s, which began the era of antibiotics, has been recognized as one of the greatest advances in therapeutic medicine. The discovery of penicillin and the initial recognition of its therapeutic potential occurred in the United Kingdom, but, due to World War II, the United States ...