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Flem·ing, Sir Alexander

/ˈflemiNG/
- 1. (1881–1955), Scottish bacteriologist. In 1928, Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin on bacteria. Twelve years later Howard Florey and Ernst Chain established its therapeutic use as an antibiotic. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1945, shared with Florey and Chain).
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Alexander Fleming
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Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate
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 anti... Wikipedia
- Born: August 6, 1881, Darvel, United Kingdom
- Died: March 11, 1955, London, England
- Cause of Death: Heart attack
- Spouse: Amalia Fleming(m 1953 - 1955), Sarah Marion McElroy(m 1915 - 1949)
- Children: Robert Fleming
- Parents: Hugh Fleming, Grace Morton
- Education: St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London, Kilmarnock Academy, Imperial College School of Medicine, University of Westminster
- Important works: Panorama, Matters of Life and Death
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