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Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [1] (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 ...
May 13, 2024 · Alexander Fleming (born August 6, 1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland—died March 11, 1955, London, England) was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin. Fleming had a genius for technical ingenuity and original observation.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, 1881, and studied medicine, serving as a physician during World War I. ... (now the University of Westminster). Fleming was a member ...
Beginnings. Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 at his parents’ farm located near the small town of Darvel, in Scotland, UK. His parents, Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton, were both from farming families. His father’s health was fragile; he died when Alexander was just seven years old.
Fleming married again in 1953, his bride was Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Voureka, a Greek colleague at St. Mary’s. In his younger days he was a keen member of the Territorial Army and he served from 1900 to 1914 as a private in the London Scottish Regiment. Dr Fleming died on March 11th in 1955 and is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
A biographer wrote: “As if overnight, Fleming, with red-rimmed eyes and trembling hands, seemed to have become an old man.” However, in 1953, Fleming remarried Dr Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas in a Greek church in London. On March 11, 1955, Alexander Fleming suddenly died of coronary thrombosis at home.
Sir Alexander Fleming. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945. Born: 6 August 1881, Lochfield, Scotland. Died: 11 March 1955, London, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: London University, London, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”.
