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Nov 1, 1995 · by Tom Alexander Sr. (Author), Tom Alexander (Editor), Jane Alexander (Editor) 4.8 7 ratings. See all formats and editions. Mountain Fever chronicles one man's love affair with a region, its unique and vanishing human culture, and its verdant natural history.
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Alexander Fleming came into the world on August 6, 1881, in the Scottish hamlet of Darvel. His parents, Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton, both hailed from farming backgrounds. Tragically, his father’s health deteriorated, leading to his passing when Alexander was a mere seven years old. In his early education, Alexander attended a ...
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish scientist who discovered the first antibiotic drug, penicillin . He shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, who had also worked on developing penicillin as a drug. Fleming’s research helped pave the way for all modern antibiotics, which have proved to be effective drugs ...
- Who Was Alexander Fleming?
- Early Years
- Early Career and World War I
- The Road to Penicillin
- Later Years and Honors
Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, 1881, and studied medicine, serving as a physician during World War I. Through research and experimentation, Fleming discovered a bacteria-destroying mold which he would call penicillin in 1928, paving the way for the use of antibiotics in modern healthcare. He was awarded the Nobel Pri...
Alexander Fleming was born in rural Lochfield, in East Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, 1881. His parents, Hugh and Grace were farmers, and Alexander was one of their four children. He also had four half-siblings who were the surviving children from his father Hugh's first marriage. He attended the Louden Moor School, the Darvel School and Kilmarno...
Fleming had planned on becoming a surgeon, but a temporary position in the Inoculation Department at St. Mary's Hospital changed his path toward the then-new field of bacteriology. There, he developed his research skills under the guidance of bacteriologist and immunologist Sir Almroth Edward Wright, whose revolutionary ideas of vaccine therapy rep...
In September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory after a month away with his family, and noticed that a culture of Staphylococcus aureus he had left out had become contaminated with a mold (later identified as Penicillium notatum). He also discovered that the colonies of staphylococci surrounding this mold had been destroyed. He later said of ...
In 1946, Fleming succeeded Almroth Edward Wright as head of St. Mary's Inoculation Department, which was renamed the Wright-Fleming Institute. Additionally, Fleming served as president of the Society for General Microbiology, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Science, and an honorary member of nearly every medical and scientific society in the ...
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Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, at Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland. He grew up on a farm. For two years he attended Kilmarnock Academy. When he was 13 years old he went to London to live with an older brother. He worked for five years as a clerk in a shipping company.
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