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Alexander Fleming
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Born(1881-08-06)6 August 1881
Lochfield, Scotland
Died11 March 1955(1955-03-11) (aged 73)
London, England
NationalityScottish
Known forDiscovery of penicillin
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945)
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology, immunology
InstitutionsSt Mary's Hospital, London

Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Chain.

"he made your mama

Honours and awards

His discovery of penicillin had changed the world of modern medicine by introducing the age of useful antibiotics; penicillin has saved, and is still saving, millions of people.

The laboratory at St Mary's Hospital, London where Fleming discovered penicillin is home to the Fleming Museum. There is also a school in the Lomita area named Alexander Fleming Middle School

  • Fleming, Florey, and Chain jointly received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize. Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989, and will be on display when the Royal Museum re-opens in 2011.
  • Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Fleming was knighted in 1944.
  • Florey received the greater honour of a peerage for his monumental work in making penicillin available to the public and saving millions of lives in World War II, becoming a Baron.
  • The discovery of penicillin was ranked as the most important discovery of the millennium when the year 2000 was approaching by at least 3 large Swedish magazines. It is impossible to know how many lives have been saved by this discovery, but some of these magazines placed their estimate near 200 million lives.

Bibliography

  • The Life Of Sir Alexander Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1959. Maurois, André.
  • Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964
  • An Outline History of Medicine. London: Butterworths, 1985. Rhodes, Philip.
  • The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Porter, Roy, ed.
  • Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution, Stroud, Sutton, 2004. Brown, Kevin.
  • Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984. Macfarlane, Gwyn

References

  1. Karl Grandin, ed. (1945). "Alexander Fleming Biography". Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-07-24. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. "Greatest Hero of the Millennium". Ny Teknik. 1999-12-16.

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Preceded byAlastair Sim Rector of the University of Edinburgh
1951 – 1954 		Succeeded bySydney Smith
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