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  2. Sep 25, 2018 · The story that Alexander Fleming (or Alex and his father Hugh) twice saved Churchill’s life, charming as it may be, is certainly fiction. This persistent Churchill legend dates back to World War II. It is still found today on otherwise serious websites, despite abundant evidence against it.

  3. Aug 29, 2008 · The myth of Fleming saving Churchill's life is fiction. The story is based on a 1944 article that has no basis in fact or historical records. Churchill was treated for pneumonia with sulfadiazine, not penicillin, and Fleming did not invent penicillin until 1928. The myth is based on a later article that has no basis in fact or historical records.

  4. Aug 9, 1999 · The father of Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, saved a young Winston Churchill from drowning; in gratitude Churchill's father paid for Fleming's education. Rating:...

  5. Jan 11, 2020 · Alexander Fleming, Ken HIrsch, Lord Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert, penicillin, Winston S. Churchill. It is not true that Alexander Fleming saved Churchill twice: from drowning as a boy, and, with penicillin, from pneumonia in 1943.

  6. The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false. According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown , Alexander Fleming, in a letter [99] to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, [100] described ...

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  7. Mar 17, 2015 · The son grows up to become Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. Years later, the nobleman’s son is stricken with pneumonia but saved by penicillin. That nobleman’s son is Winston Churchill. The Truth: According to the Winston Churchill center in Washington, D.C., this is a myth.

  8. Did the lives of two famous Englishmen intersect? True story or tall tale? See below. His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family ...

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