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   Alexander Fleming. Fleming’s serendipitous discovery of penicillin changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize. about SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHIES. In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, though he did not realize the full significance of his discovery for at least another decade.

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   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.

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   Why did Alexander Fleming win a Nobel Prize?

   • Fleming’s serendipitous discovery of penicillin changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize. 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.

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   Who was Alexander Fleming?

   • 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.

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   What did Fleming discover?

   • Fleming’s laboratory notebooks are sketchy, and his subsequent accounts of the discovery are contradictory. The evidence of the first culture, which he photographed, indicated that he observed lysis, the weakening and destruction of bacteria—as in his lysozyme studies.

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   Why did Fleming discover penicillin?

   • Fleming himself did not realize how important his discovery was; for a decade after, he focused instead on penicillin’s potential use as a topical antiseptic for wounds and surface infections and as a means of isolating certain bacteria in laboratory cultures.

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4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 338713193(PDF) Alexander Fleming, The Discoverer of the Antibiotic ...

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   Jan 21, 2020 · Michal Letek. Universidad de León. Citations (10) References (3) Abstract. In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed the bacterial-killing effects of penicillin in his laboratory in London....

5. www.cambridge.org › core › servicesTHE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES OF ALEXANDER FLEMING, OTHER THAN ...

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   FLEMING, OTHER THAN THE DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN by RONALDHARE* THEBEGINNING ALEXANDER FLEMING was born in 1881 on a remote farm in Ayrshire; he was educated at Darvel village school four miles away over rough moorland, and at Kilmarnock Academy. Whenhe wasthirteen and a half, he went to live in London, wherehebecameaclerk in a shipping office.

6. royalsocietypublishing.org › doi › pdfAlexander Fleming, 1881-1955

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   1881-1955. Alexander Fleming was the youngest of four children born to an Ayrshire farmer, Hugh Fleming, by his second wife Grace ( Morton) on 6 August 1881. His education, up to the age of twelve, was at the village school (Darvel) and, for a further two years, at the Kilmarnock Academy. At fourteen he joined his brothers in London, where he ...

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   Learn about the life and discoveries of Sir Alexander Fleming, the Nobel laureate who revolutionized medicine with penicillin.

8. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleSir Alexander Fleming: Scottish researcher who discovered ...

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   Jan 1, 2004 · Alexander Fleming: Scottish researcher who discovered penicillin. Without doubt, the discovery and development of penicillin changed the entire direction of approaches to treating infectious diseases and saved the lives of millions of people.