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  1. Jul 27, 2010 · Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-07-27 22:10:51 Bookplateleaf 0007 Boxid IA124401 Camera

  2. Jan 1, 2005 · Fleming, known as Alec to his family, had a rather idyllic childhood on an Ayrshire farm. His “rags to riches” story is so much a part of medical folklore that readers might have heard that young Alec went to school barefoot as his family was so poor. Brown points out that the family was in fact comfortably off.

  3. Alexander Fleming Biography. Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was born in East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1881. He was a biologist and pharmacologist most famous for his discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928. He was awarded a Nobel Prize, jointly with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for medicine in 1945.

  4. May 10, 2015 · Kindle. $2.99 Read with our free app. Sir Alexander “Alec” Fleming is one of the great biologists and pharmacologists we have in history. He was born in Scotland during the 18th century. Eventually, he moved to London, where he earned a medical degree when he was only 22 years old and after that, received a gold medal for his course in ...

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  5. Alexander Fleming discovered that a mold called Penicillium notatum stopped the growth of Staphylococcus bacteria. The bacteria causes illnesses, so the discovery led to the creation of drugs to cure the illnesses.

  6. May 9, 2018 · 1881–1955. Alexander Fleming will always be remembered for turning a laboratory mishap into one of the great medical discoveries of the twentieth century. His discovery of penicillin in 1928 laid the foundation for modern antibiotic therapy and earned him a share of the 1945 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

  7. Feb 9, 2016 · Check out this trailer of our new film about the great discovery of penicillin by scientist Alexander Fleming. Find out more at www.nowyouknowabout.com

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