Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance discovered.
Background
- Born in
- Lochfield
- Educated at
- Imperial College LondonUniversity of WestminsterImperial College School of MedicineKilmarnock AcademySt Mary's Hospital Medical School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Albert Medal
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1881
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Birth1955
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