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Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

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Alexander Fleming was a Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, which revolutionized medicine by enabling doctors to treat bacterial infections that were previously often fatal. His discovery earned him the Nobel Prize and fundamentally changed modern healthcare, saving countless lives through the development of antibiotics.

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Born: 1881
Died: 1955
Works: 14

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On the use of salvarsan in the treatment of syphilis
Penicillin
Introductory address delivered at the opening of the session 1870-71
An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the aconitum napellus. To which are added observations on several other species of aconitum
Penicillin, its practical application

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Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1908-05-28
Active to: 1964-08-12

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Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance discovered. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".

He also discovered the enzyme lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.