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Alexander Fleming. (1881-1955). Biography. He was a farmer's son from Ayrshire in Scotland He moved to London at 13 and later trained as a doctor In 1928 Fleming was research assistant . Work. He was working with bacterias He accidentaly discovered a mould The mould was penicillin
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Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
Biography • He was a farmer's son from Ayrshire in Scotland • He moved to London at 13 and later trained as a doctor • In 1928 Fleming was research assistant
Work • He was working with bacterias • He accidentaly discovered a mould • The mould was penicillin • Fleming has discovered the first antibiotic • he got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945
The present • His discovery of penicillin had changed the world • Penicillin has saved, and is still saving, millions of people’s lifes around the world • But Penicillin could be produced as a drug