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Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming
Fleming (centre) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden (right), 1945
Personal information
Birth date06 August 1881
Birth placeLochfield, Scotland
Death date11 March 1955(age 73)
Death placeLondon, England
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
NationalityScottish
FieldsBacteriology, immunology
Alma materRoyal Polytechnic Institution; St Mary's Hospital Medical School
Known forDiscovery of penicillin
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945)

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Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 � 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain.

In 1999, Time Magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his discovery of penicillin, and stated:

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4.80 min. | 3.8 user rating		 A government produced film about the discovery of Penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming, and the continuing development of its use as an antibiotic by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. The film uses many modernist animations to depict the scientific research. This video was made from material preserved by the BFI National Archive. Find out more: catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk
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Alexander Fleming is alongside the likes of Edward Jenner, Robert Koch, Christian Barnard and Louis Pasteur in medical history. Alexander Fleming discovered what was to be one of the most powerful of all antibiotics penicillin. This drug was to change the way disease was treated and cement Flemings name in medical history.
4.50 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Available on DVD from www.digitalclassicsdvd.co.uk and all major retailers. September 1943. Portland House, England. A meeting of scientists, government officials and pharmaceutical companies come to an agreement that will transform medicine forever: a new life saving drug, penicillin, is to be manufactured. As the attendees step out into the street, the crowded ranks of photographers and journalists converge on Alexander Fleming (Denis Lawson, Star Wars); eager for a quote from the hero of the hour, the man they believe discovered penicillin. As Fleming talks, another scientist, Howard Florey (Dominic West, The Wire), stands unnoticed in the background. Breaking the Mould tells the story behind the discovery of penicillin and the forgotten people involved. A revealing, poignant and witty character driven account of a scientific miracle.
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Academic offices
Preceded by
Alastair Sim		Rector of the University of Edinburgh
1951 - 1954		Succeeded by
Sydney Smith

Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine

Johannes Fibiger (1926) * Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) * Charles Nicolle (1928) * Christiaan Eijkman / Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929) * Karl Landsteiner (1930) * Otto Warburg (1931) * Charles Scott Sherrington / Edgar Adrian (1932) * Thomas Morgan (1933) * George Whipple / George Minot / William Murphy (1934) * Hans Spemann (1935) * Henry Dale / Otto Loewi (1936) * Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937) * Corneille Heymans (1938) * Gerhard Domagk (1939) * Henrik Dam / Edward Doisy (1943) * Joseph Erlanger / Herbert Gasser (1944) * Alexander Fleming / Ernst Chain / Howard Florey (1945) * Hermann Muller (1946) * Carl Cori / Gerty Cori / Bernardo Houssay (1947) * Paul Müller (1948) * Walter Hess / António Egas Moniz (1949) * Edward Kendall / Tadeus Reichstein / Philip Hench (1950)



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