Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming is a british bacteriologist
Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6, 1881. Alexander was 7th of 8 children.
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Alexander went to school at Darvel school. He finished his basic education at Regent Street Polytechnic, which is now the University of Westminster. Alexander was a member of the territorial army, and served from 1900 to 1914. He started studying in the medical field at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London.
St Mary’s Hospital Medical School
He worked in a hospitals in London .
Fleming was interested in bacterial action and antibacterial drugs
He grow on a plate a colony of dangerous bacteria
One day he see on the plate a mold
By means of numerous experiments on animals
Fleming called this substance penicillin
In 1942 he used penicillin in treatment
Fleming received the Nobel Prize for his great discovery
He said : «Everywhere I go people thank me for saving their lives. I do not know why they do it. I didn’t do anything. Nature makes penicillin. I only found it.»
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