Alex fleming biography
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“I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.”
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician-scientist who was recognised for discovering penicillin. The simple discovery and use of the antibiotic agent has saved millions of lives, and earned Fleming – together with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, who devised methods for the large-scale isolation and production of penicillin – the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine.
BEGINNINGS
On August 6, , Alexander Fleming was born to Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton in Lochfield Farm, Scotland. Initially schooled in Scotland, Fleming eventually moved to London with three brothers and a sister, and completed his youth education at the Regent Street Polytechnic. He did not enter medical school immediately after; instead, he worked in a shipping office for four years. When his uncle John died, he willed equal shares of his estate to his siblings, nieces and nephews, and Fleming was able to use his share
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Alexander Fleming
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Who Was Alexander Fleming?
Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, , and studied medicine, serving as a physician during World War I. Through research and experimentation, Fleming discovered a bacteria-destroying mold which he would call penicillin in , paving the way for the use of antibiotics in modern healthcare. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in and died on March 11,
Early Years
Alexander Fleming was born in rural Lochfield, in East Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, His parents, Hugh and Grace were farmers, and Alexander was one of their four children. He also had kvartet half-siblings who were the surviving children from his father Hugh's first marriage. He attended the Louden Moor School, the Darvel School and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London in , where he lived with his older brother, Thomas Fleming. In London, Fleming finished his basic education at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster).
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Alexander Fleming
Scottish physician and microbiologist (–)
For other people named Alexander Fleming, see Alexander Fleming (disambiguation).
Sir Alexander FlemingFRS FRSE FRCS[2] (6 August – 11 March ) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".[3][4] For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain.[5][6][7]
He also discovered the enzymelysozyme from his nasal discharge in , and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.
Fleming was knighted for his scientific achievements in [8]