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4 days ago · Scottish biologist and bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza. At the time, Fleming was experimenting with the influenza virus in the Laboratory of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London.
4 days ago · On September 15, 1928, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a groundbreaking discovery that would revolutionize modern medicine. While studying influenza in his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London, Fleming stumbled upon what would become known as penicillin, the world's first antibiotic.
5 days ago · Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin in 1928, which started the antibiotic revolution. He was recognized for that achievement in 1945, when he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
2 days ago · Howard Ricketts shows that Rocky Mountain spotted fever is caused by an organism that is intermediate in size between an virus and a bacterium. This organism, Rickettsia, is transmitted by ticks.
- Karen Yee
- 2018
13 hours ago · While working at St Mary's Hospital in London in 1928, Scottish physician Alexander Fleming was the first to experimentally determine that a Penicillium mould secretes an antibacterial substance, which he named "penicillin".
6 days ago · Arguably, the trend may have started with Alexander Fleming himself, when in 1928 his artistic eye helped him spot the odd cloud of fungus in that Petri dish, which famously led to penicillin.
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2 days ago · Mountain Climbing texts »The spirit of the pioneering mountaineer emanates from Mountain Fever , a superb account of the 19th century conquests of the highest and most imposing of Pacific Northwest mountains, Mt. Rainier.
