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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. 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.

  4. History of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    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. Dorothy Hodgkin determined its chemical structure, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

  5. Penicillin - Wikipedia

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    Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming as a crude extract of P. rubens. [6] Fleming's student Cecil George Paine was the first to successfully use penicillin to treat eye infection (neonatal conjunctivitis) in 1930.

  6. Portal:Scotland/Selected biographies/44 - Wikipedia

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    Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (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. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has ...

  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. Medallion containing original mold from discovery of ...

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    A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch up to $50,000 at auction.

  9. List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry

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    The development of penicillin 1928–1945 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.