Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrated its use as the antibiotic that we know today. Knighted 1944. Joint winner of the Nobel prize for medicine in 1945. Died London. His ashes are buried in St Paul’s cathedral.
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Fleming Discovered Penicillin {Around the profile bust:} Alexander Fleming P...
Fountains Abbey - Paddington W2 Paddington has always adequately provided ho...
Hillingdon, London Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, biologist, pharmacologist an...
Greater London Council Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penic...
Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discovered penicillin in the second storey ...
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Metropolitan Borough of Paddington This tablet commemorates the opening of th...
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Lady District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1918-1942. Serving Sister in the Order of St John.
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This almost certainly is the Leyton Urban District Ratepayers Association, who erected other plaques in the area. It had two candidates elected to the Urban District Council in 1904, and It underto...
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