Alexander Fleming Biography
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Source: Wikipedia
Biography Snapshot
- Name:
- Alexander Fleming
- Nationality:
- United Kingdom
- Profession:
- Biologist, Scientist, Pharmacologist
- Ethnicity:
- Scottish people
- Religion:
- Catholicism
- Date of Birth:
- August 6, 1881
- Astrological Sign:
- Leo
- Date of Death:
- March 11, 1955
- Age at Death:
- 73
- Cause of Death:
- Myocardial infarction
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