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Alexander Fleming

Scottish physician and microbiologist (1881–1955)

For other people named Alexander Fleming, see Alexander Fleming (disambiguation).

Sir Alexander FlemingFRS FRSE FRCS[2] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".[3][4] For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain.[5][6][7]

He also discovered the enzymelysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.

Fleming was knighted for his scientific achievements in 1944.[8] In 1999, he was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most

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Alexander Flemimg Born

  • Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield in Scotland on August 6th, 1881(Bio)
  • Fleming was a member of the Territorial Army, and served from 1900 to 1914 in the London Scottish Regiment. He was also a captain in the Army Medical Corps throughout World War I.(Brown)
  • Fleming qualified for medical school in 1906 and began research at St Mary's Hospital Medical School at the University of London. He studied under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy.(Bio)
  • Alexander Fleming won the 1908 gold medal, as top medical student at the University of London.(Nobel)
  • At first he planned to become a surgeon, but a temporary position in the laboratories of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital convinced him otherwise. As he studied bacteriology, his research skills had increased as well as his interest in the up and coming field.(Brown)
  • This is was the first of his major discoveries. In November 1921 Fleming discovered lysozyme, an enzyme present in body fluids like saliva and tears that h
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    Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

    Sir Alexander Fleming  ©Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner, best known for his discovery of penicillin

    Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1881, the son of a farmer. He moved to London at the age of 13 and later trained as a doctor. He qualified with distinction in 1906 and began research at St Mary's Hospital Medical School at the University of London under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy. In World War One Fleming served in the Army Medical Corps and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war, he returned to St Mary's.

    In 1928, while studying influenza, Fleming noticed that mould had developed accidentally on a set of culture dishes being used to grow the staphylococci germ. The mould had created a bacteria-free circle around itself. Fleming experimented further and named the active substance penicillin. It was two other scientists however, Australian Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, a refugee from Nazi Germany, who developed penicillin further so that it could be produced as a drug.

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