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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.
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
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.
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.
1928 – Alexander Fleming notices that a certain mold could stop the duplication of bacteria, leading to the first antibiotic: penicillin. 1933 – Hybrid corn is commercialized. 1942 – Penicillin is mass-produced in microbes for the first time. 1950 – The first synthetic antibiotic is created.
It will be called the Fleming Centre in honor of Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, and it will open in 2028 to mark the centenary anniversary of his discovery.
1928 – Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin; 1929 – Phoebus Levene discovered the sugar deoxyribose in nucleic acids. 1929 – Edward Doisy and Adolf Butenandt independently discovered estrone. 1930 – John Howard Northrop showed that the pepsin enzyme is a protein. 1931 – Adolf Butenandt discovered androsterone.
Electrocardiography: Alexander Muirhead (1869) [144] [145] Discovery of Staphylococcus: Sir Alexander Ogston (1880) [146] Discovering insulin: John Macleod (1876–1935) with others [11] The discovery led him to be awarded the 1923 Nobel prize in Medicine. [147] Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) [10]
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