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
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Hillingdon, London Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, biologist, pharmacologist an...
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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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District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1909-1940. Officer in the Order of St John. The Straits Times, 29 September 1940, Page 2 carried an obituary: "WESTMINSTER ...
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It was saved from demolition by the Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group and was converted to offices.
Physiologist. Born London. There is a portrait memorial by Mary Gillick at the Royal Society of Medicine. Source: Art UK.
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