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* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

Penicillin, the first natural antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928

After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.

Alexander Fleming

For their discovery and development of penicillin as a therapeutic drug, Ernst Chain, Howard Florey, and Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.

* A statue of Alexander Fleming stands outside the main bullring in Madrid, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.

* The Life Of Sir Alexander Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1959.

* Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution, Stroud, Sutton, 2004.

* Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984.

* Alexander Fleming Biography

* Time, 29 March 1999, Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming

* Some places and memories related to Alexander Fleming

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