Sir Alexander Fleming

The bacteriologist

which changed the world

Penicillin fungus

Young Life
Born: 6th August 1881 in Lochfield, Scotland Nickname: Alec Schools: Kilmarnock Academy, Royal Polytechnic Institution, St Marys Hospital Medical School Marriage: Sarah Marion McElroy

An accidental discovery
Fleming was well-known before penicillin. Fleming untidy/lab He find/penicillin and make tests/ Summer 1928 On 7 March 1929, it realised penicillin. It be /first/antibiotic/ ever find.

The antibiotics age

At first nobody cared with Fleming discover. Two scientists picked Fleming discover to make an antibiotic Gonorrhoea is one of the diseases cured by penicillin antibiotics.

Awards and death

He receive/Nobel Prize in Medicine/with Florey and Chain /1945/ Gustav V. He also receive Hunterian Professorship award His wife died in 1949. He married again and 2 years later he died in 1955 from heart attack.

Curiosities
The penicillin was considered the most important finding in the 20th century. It has already saved 200 millions lives. There is a story that his father saved Winston Churchill's father from die and thats how he could pay his studies. It was made a stamp (Faro)