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  2. Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia

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    Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [2] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

  3. Alexander Fleming | Biography, Education, Discovery, Nobel Prize...

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    Alexander Fleming (born August 6, 1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland—died March 11, 1955, London, England) was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for his discovery of penicillin. Fleming had a genius for technical ingenuity and original observation.

  4. Alexander Fleming - Penicillin, Quotes & Facts - Biography

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    Alexander Fleming was a doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1945. (1881-1955) Who Was Alexander Fleming? Alexander Fleming was born in...

  5. Sir Alexander Fleming – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

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    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"

  6. Alexander Fleming - Science History Institute

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    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.

  7. Alexander Fleming Discovery and Development of Penicillin -...

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    In 1928, at St. Mary's Hospital, London, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. This discovery led to the introduction of antibiotics that greatly reduced the number of deaths from infection.

  8. Sir Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin - BBC

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    Well that's exactly what happened on 28 September 1928, when Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, found a substance called penicillin that transformed the history of medicine....

  9. Sir Alexander Fleming – Facts - NobelPrize.org

    www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/fleming

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"

  10. The age of antibiotics began in September 1928, with the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), then a professor of bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Previously there were no effective treatments against a range of bacterial infections from pneumonia to sepsis.

  11. The real story behind penicillin | PBS News

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    Penicillin was discovered in London in September of 1928. As the story goes, Dr. Alexander Fleming, the bacteriologist on duty at St. Mary’s Hospital, returned from a summer vacation in Scotland...