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  1. Nov 1, 1995 · by Tom Alexander Sr. (Author), Tom Alexander (Editor), Jane Alexander (Editor) 4.8 7 ratings. See all formats and editions. Mountain Fever chronicles one man's love affair with a region, its unique and vanishing human culture, and its verdant natural history. Spanning the 1920s through the 1960s, it recounts Tom Alexander's early adventures as ...

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  2. Born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming was the third of four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816–1888) and Grace Stirling Morton (1848–1928), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second ...

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  4. Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was born in East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1881. He was a biologist and pharmacologist most famous for his discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928. He was awarded a Nobel Prize, jointly with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for medicine in 1945.

  5. Thomas W. Alexander, Sr. (19001972) was a forester, outdoorsman, farmer, raconteur, writer, and resort owner who is prominently identified with the Great Smoky Mountains. Beginning with a humble fishing camp, he and his wife went on to found Cataloochee Ranch.

  6. 1881 - 1955. Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The ...

  7. Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Scientists. Famous British People. Alexander Fleming was a doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1945. Updated: May 27, 2021. Getty...

  8. Mar 7, 2024 · Alexander Fleming. Alexander Fleming (born August 6, 1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland—died March 11, 1955, London, England) was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin. Fleming had a genius for technical ingenuity and original observation.

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