Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the enzyme lysozyme and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance which he named penicillin. He discovered lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus Lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus. His discovery of what is later named benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium rubens in 1928, is described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease." For this discovery he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
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Date of Birth
August 6th, 1881
Age
142
Birth Place
United Kingdom, Scotland
Date of Death
March 11st, 1955
Died Aged
73
Star Sign
Leo
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Amalia Fleming
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Robert Fleming
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Hugh Fleming
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Grace Morton
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Sarah Marion McElroy
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