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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.
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist best known for his discovery of penicillin, the world's first and widely effective antibiotic.
This miracle drug was one of the first antibiotics. It was discovered and given to the world by Alexander Fleming, a physician and research bacteriologist at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, England. Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, at Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland. He grew up on a farm.
Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (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.