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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.
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]
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine medal awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming, on display at the National Museum of Scotland. When the news of the curative properties of penicillin broke, Fleming revelled in the publicity. [55] [56] Journalists told a familiar story of a lone British scientist and a serendipitous discovery. The British medical ...
Fleming, in his laboratory at St Mary's, Paddington, London . 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.
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
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 ...
Sir Alexander Fleming: Scottish 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering penicillin. [15] 1906–1979 Sir Ernst Boris Chain: British 1898–1968 Howard Walter Florey: Australian 1899–1972 Max Theiler: South African 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a vaccine against yellow fever. [16] 1888–1973
Sir Alexander Fleming: 1881–1955 microbiologist Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 John Fleming: 1785–1857 naruralist: person after whom Fleming Fjord is named Williamina Fleming: 1857–1911 astronomer cataloguing of stars contributor, discoverer of the Horsehead Nebula: John Flett: 1869–1947 geologist