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  1. www.snopes.com › fact-check › what-goes-aroundDid Alexander Fleming's Father Save Winston Churchill from ...

    Aug 9, 1999 · The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning; in gratitude Churchill's father paid for Fleming's education. Rating: False

  2. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › literatureThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - NobelPrize.org

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1953_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature1953 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

    The 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."

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  5. winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu › alexander-Charming but Fanciful: The Fleming-Churchill Myth

    Sep 25, 2018 · The story that Alexander Fleming (or Alex and his father Hugh) twice saved Churchill’s life, charming as it may be, is certainly fiction. This persistent Churchill legend dates back to World War II. It is still found today on otherwise serious websites, despite abundant evidence against it.

  6. winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu › churchills-nobelWinston Churchill and the Nobel Prizes, 1946-1953

    Jan 29, 2018 · The Prize for Literature. According to Kjell Strömberg of the Swedish Academy, the first report on Churchill’s Literature nomination was in 1946. The Academy’s aged Per Hallström found “no literary merit whatever” in Churchill’s novel Savrola, and dismissed his autobiography My Early Life and memoir, The World Crisis.

  7. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › literatureWinston Churchill – Facts - NobelPrize.org

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"

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  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alexander_FlemingAlexander Fleming - Wikipedia

    According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as "A wondrous fable." Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II.