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Born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming was the third of four children of farmer Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton, the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage.
From 2001 to 2008, Fleming was married to banker Rory Fleming, first cousin once removed of James Bond writer Ian Fleming, with whom she has two children, Alexander (b. April 2004) and Josephine (b. April 2004) and Josephine (b.
Fleming was born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey), in 1912. Her father was Harikios Koutsouris, a physician. [1] In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War and the rise of the "racially intolerant Pan-Turkish state", [2] with the family home lost and her father's laboratory confiscated, she fled to Athens with her family.
BBC Children in Need/Comic Relief/Getty Images. The brand-new project will hold a special meaning to Prince William due to the location. The Fleming Centre will be located at St Mary’s Hospital ...
The Fleming lunar crater was jointly named after her and (not closely related) Alexander Fleming; The asteroid 5747 Williamina is named after her. [21] Kathryn Lasky published a book in 2021 about Fleming illustrated by Julianna Swaney called "She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer" aimed at young people. [22]
Fleming was born in Edinburgh on 7 August 1906, [1] the youngest of four sons (the second of whom died at the age of five months), and fifth of five children of Robert Alexander Fleming FRSE (a surgeon in Edinburgh) and Eleanor Mary, the daughter of the Rev William Lyall Holland, rector of Cornhill-on-Tweed.
This led him and Florey to revisit the work of Alexander Fleming, who had described penicillin nine years earlier. Chain and Florey went on to discover penicillin's therapeutic action and its chemical composition. Chain and Florey discovered how to isolate and concentrate the germ-killing agent in penicillin.
Jean Fleming (1948-his death) (3 children) Alexander Livingston Nicol Jr. (January 20, 1916 – July 29, 2001) was an American actor and film director.