Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. His father Hugh, died at 59 when Alexander was only seven. He is best known for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928. He shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for this discovery with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. His accidental finding of penicillin in the year 1928 marked the start of today's antibiotics.
Fleming was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. He saw many soldiers die of infection after being wounded, and after the war did research in bacteriology. After accidentally finding penicillin he studied ways to use it.
Fleming died of a heart attack in London. He was buried in St. Paul's cathedral.
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Alexander Fleming Media
An advertisement advertising penicillin's "miracle cure"
Commemorative plaque marking Fleming's discovery of penicillin at St Mary's Hospital, London
3D-model of benzylpenicillin
Fleming in his laboratory in 1943
Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery.
Grave of Sir Alexander Fleming in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London
Sir Alexander Fleming (centre) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden (right) in 1945
Faroe Islands postage stamp commemorating Fleming
Barcelona to Sir Alexander Fleming (1956), by Catalan sculptor Josep Manuel Benedicto. Barcelona: jardins del Doctor Fleming.
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