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  2. The Mold That Changed the World - Wikipedia

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    Lifeline (formerly The Mould That Changed the World) is a biographical musical produced by Charades Theatre Company about Alexander Fleming.Conceived in 2016 by Meghan Perry who pitched it to Robin Hiley, artistic director of Charades Theater Company, Lifeline addresses antimicrobial resistance and casts scientists and medical professionals as its chorus.

  3. 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.

  4. History of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    During the Second World War penicillin became an important part of the Allied war effort, saving thousands of lives. Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery and development of penicillin. After the end of the war in 1945, penicillin became widely available.

  5. Discovery of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    Sample of penicillin mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod in 1935. The discovery of penicillin was one of the most important scientific discoveries in the history of medicine. Ancient societies used moulds to treat infections and in the following centuries many people observed the inhibition of bacterial growth by moulds.

  6. Timelines of world history - Wikipedia

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    These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history

  7. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1929: Alexander Fleming: Penicillin, the first beta-lactam antibiotic; 1929: Lars Onsager's reciprocal relations, a potential fourth law of thermodynamics; 1930: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers his eponymous limit of the maximum mass of a white dwarf star; 1931: Kurt Gödel: incompleteness theorems prove formal axiomatic systems are incomplete

  8. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scotland – Penicillin; John Ambrose Fleming (1848–1945), UK – Vacuum diode; Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), Canada – Universal Standard Time; Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), Georgia/Russia/Belgium – first tandem rotor helicopter to fly freely; Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), UK – Colossus an early ...

  9. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1926: John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first live working television system. [462] [463] [464] 1927: The quartz clock is invented by Warren Marrison and J.W. Horton at Bell Telephone Laboratories. [465] 1928: Penicillin is first observed to exude antibiotic substances by Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming.