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Nov 1, 1995 · Hardcover – November 1, 1995. 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 a government ranger and forester in Western North Carolina, where he dealt with arsonists ...
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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 ...
- 11 March 1955 (aged 73), London, England
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- 6 August 1881, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland
Lived 1881 - 1955. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, whose use as an antibiotic has saved untold millions of lives. Less well-known is that before making this world-changing discovery, he had already made significant life-saving contributions to medical science. Beginnings Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 at his parents' farm ...
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Apr 5, 2016 · Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, on a sheep farm near Darvel in Ayrshire. He was the third of four children of his father Hugh and mother Grace Morton, Hugh’s second wife. There were also four children from Hugh Fleming’s first marriage. Fleming attended Louden Moor and Darvel schools before moving on a scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy.
Mar 7, 2024 · 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.
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 ...
In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, though he did not realize the full significance of his discovery for at least another decade. He eventually received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. As far back as the 19th century, antagonism between certain bacteria and molds had been observed, and a name was ...
