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  1. Mar 7, 2024 · In full: Sir Alexander Fleming. Born: August 6, 1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland. Died: March 11, 1955, London, England (aged 73) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1945) Subjects Of Study:

  2. He was 59 at the time of his second marriage to Grace, and died when Alexander was seven. [9] Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution. [10]

    • 6 August 1881, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland
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  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Fleming died of a heart attack on March 11, 1955, at his home in London, England. He was survived by his second wife, Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, and his only child, Robert, from his first...

  5. Fleming’s serendipitous discovery of penicillin changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize. In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, though he did not realize the full significance of his discovery for at least another decade. He eventually received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.

  6. On March 11, 1955, Alexander Fleming suddenly died of coronary thrombosis at home. He had been suffering from what he perceived to be gastric upset for some weeks. When his wife called their family physician regarding the onset of nausea on March 11, he reassured them that a house visit was not necessary.

    • Siang Yong Tan, Yvonne Tatsumura
    • 10.11622/smedj.2015105
    • 2015
    • Singapore Med J. 2015 Jul; 56(7): 366-367.
  7. Mar 12, 2013 · Biologist's great medical find happened by chance. Tue 12 Mar 2013 03.00 EDT. Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, died suddenly at his home in Chelsea, London, yesterday after a...

  8. In 1944 Fleming was knighted and became Sir Alexander Fleming. His wife Sarah died in 1949. In 1953 Fleming married Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Voureka, who was working in his research group at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. On March 11, 1955 Alexander Fleming died age 73 in London of a heart attack. His ashes were placed in St Paul’s Cathedral.

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