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   May 17, 2021 · "In this new biography Kevin Brown provides a re-evaluation of Alexander Fleming and his scientific contribution, examining both the public figure and the private man. Penicillin Man will appeal to anyone fascinated by social and medical history or interested in the story of the man behind one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth ...

2. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesPenicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution

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   Jan 1, 2005 · The story is medical legend: Fleming, a modest man from St Mary's, returned from holiday to find some mould growing in one of his discarded staphylococcus culture plates. It made him stop and say, in classic understatement, “That's funny,” as, around the mould, staphylococci had been killed. He experimented and found a culture of the mould ...

   • Author: Sabina Dosani
   • Publication: BMJ. 2005 Jan 1; 330(7481): 50.

   • Publish Year: 2005
   • Published: 2005/01/01

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   Why did Fleming say 'that's funny' when he found a mould?

   • The story is medical legend: Fleming, a modest man from St Mary's, returned from holiday to find some mould growing in one of his discarded staphylococcus culture plates. It made him stop and say, in classic understatement, “That's funny,” as, around the mould, staphylococci had been killed.

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   • It made Fleming as much a household name as Albert Einstein. Brown is trust archivist and curator of the Alexander Fleming Museum at St Mary's NHS Trust. Given Brown's connection with St Mary's, where Fleming spent his entire career, you might expect this biography to be fawning and sycophantic. It isn't.

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   Did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?

   • Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub. "Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin - which he found growing on a petri dish of staphylococci when he returned to work after a holiday - revolutionised healthcare and turned the modest, self-effacing Fleming into a world hero.

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   How did Fleming change the world?

   • He called the active agent penicillin—an innovation that changed forever the treatment of bacterial infections such as pneumonia, syphilis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and previously fatal wound and childbirth infections. It made Fleming as much a household name as Albert Einstein.

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4. archive.org › details › lifeofsiralexand00maurThe life of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin

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5. blogs.glowscotland.org.uk › nl › publicAlexander Fleming - blogs.glowscotland.org.uk

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   Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955) Alexander Fleming was born on 6th August 1881 near Darvel, Ayrshire and grew up on a farm. He moved to London when he was 13 and worked for a shipping company. In 1903, Fleming began to study medicine. Fleming’s later work focused on simple, tiny living cells called bacteria.

6. www.pbs.org › wgbh › asoA Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Alexander Fleming

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   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 ...

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8. www.goodreads.com › book › showMountain Fever by Jane Alexander | Goodreads

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   Beginning with a humble fishing camp, he and his wife went on to found Cataloochee Ranch. Mountain Fever chronicles Alexanders love affair with a region, its unique and vanishing human culture, and its verdant natural history.

9. www.abebooks.com › 9780914875260 › Mountain-FeverMountain Fever - Tom Alexander Sr.: 9780914875260 - AbeBooks

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