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Alexander Fleming Inventor of Penicillin

Alexander Fleming Inventor of Penicillin. Niksa Jasovic. Childhood.  Born on Lochfield Farm, Darvel , Ayrshire on August 6, 1881.  Was a farmer's son.  Moved to London at age 13, to stay with his older brother. Fleming working in his Laboratory. Field of study.

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Alexander Fleming Inventor of Penicillin

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  1. Alexander FlemingInventor of Penicillin NiksaJasovic

  2. Childhood Born on Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire on August 6, 1881. Was a farmer's son. Moved to London at age 13, to stay with his older brother. Fleming working in his Laboratory.

  3. Field of study Attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy. In London, he attended Polytechnic.

  4. St. Mary's Met Sir Almroth Wright, a professor at St. Mary’s. Joined his laboratory staff. Spent the rest of his life there, as a bacteriologist. Site of Fleming's laboratory.

  5. Penicillin Discovered in 1928. Was working in his lab, trying to kill a deadly bacteria, when he noticed a blue mold growing on the dish. The mold PenicillumNotatum.

  6. How it is was Developed For 9 years, nobody could purify the PenicillumNotatum to get the pure penicillin. Finally, in 1938, a team of Oxford University Scientists, headed by Howard Florey and Ernst B. Chain helped to develop penicillin. Penicillin being developed.

  7. How Penicillin is used In early days of Penicillin therapy, the drug was administered in small doses every three hours. Penicillin in a pill form.

  8. World War II Penicillin was introduced to the world just in time for World War II. It helped save many lives during the war, and has been greatly appreciated since. An add for Penicillin, during WWII.

  9. Later Life He married a nurse, and they had a son named Robert, who was born in 1924. His wife died in 1949. He was working with Amalia Coutsouris Voureka in a laboratory, and they married in 1953. He later died at the age of 74, on March 11, 1955.

  10. Fun factsAwards and Recognitions  Memberships in 87 Scientific Academies and Societies  The Nobel Prize with Howard Florey and Ernst B. Chain for Physiology or Medicine in 1945.  Collected 25 Honorary Degrees  26 Medals  18 Prized  13 Decorations  Was Knighted in 1944.

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