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Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Alexander Fleming . Sir Alexander Fleming, (born Aug. 6, 1881, Lochfield, Ayr, Scot.—died March 11, 1955, London, Eng.), Scottish bacteriologist. While serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I, he conducted research on antibacterial substances that would be nontoxic to humans.
Aug 9, 1999 · Alexander Fleming did not leave the farm to rush off to medical school to become the doctor he had supposedly always longed to be. In fact, young Alec (as he was then known) departed for London ...
Sep 27, 2013 · Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955), studying a test tube culture with a hand lens. Photo by Chris Ware/Getty Images. It took Fleming a few more weeks to grow enough of the persnickety mold so ...
Apr 14, 2017 · A chance event in a London laboratory in 1928 changed the course of medicine. Alexander Fleming, a bacteriologist at St. Mary’s Hospital, had returned from a vacation when, while talking to a colleague, he noticed a zone around an invading fungus on an agar plate in which the bacteria did not grow.
Aug 6, 2018 · The story of the discovery of penicillin in 1928 by the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming at St. Mary’s Hospital in London is one of the most popular in the history of science. The plot is novelistic: Fleming forgets a petri dish containing bacterial culture on which, by chance, a fungus grows; he returns from his summer holidays in ...
Mar 3, 2005 · Richard Cavendish marks the funeral of one of medicine's most eminent pioneers, on March 18th, 1955. Fleming on a Faroe Islands postage stamp The development of penicillin has been described as possibly the most important advance ever made in the entire history of medicine. More as myth than history, however, the credit for it went ...
