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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.
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.
Alexander Fleming in his laboratory at St Mary's Hospital, London. While working at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1928, Alexander Fleming, a Scottish physician was investigating the variation of growth in cultures of S. aureus. [21] In August, he spent the summer break with his family at his country home The Dhoon at Barton Mills, Suffolk.
Electrocardiography: Alexander Muirhead (1869) [143] [144] Discovery of Staphylococcus: Sir Alexander Ogston (1880) [145] Discovering insulin: John Macleod (1876–1935) with others [10] The discovery led him to be awarded the 1923 Nobel prize in Medicine. [146] Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) [9]
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
Molecular phylogeny has established that Alexander Fleming's first discovered penicillin producing strain is of a distinct species, P. rubens, and not of P. notatum. [4] [5] It has rarely been reported as a cause of human disease. [6] It is the source of several β-lactam antibiotics, most significantly penicillin.
Ambrose Fleming was born in Lancaster and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, University College School, London, and then University College London, where he obtained a BSc in 1870. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1877, gaining a DSc from the University of London in 1879 and a BA from Cambridge in 1881, before becoming a ...
Alexander Fleming (born March 19, 1994), professionally known as Black Atlass, is a Canadian singer, songwriter and model. [1] His song, Paris, debuted in a Louis Vuitton campaign, and was also featured in a Saint Laurent fragrance ad.