Alexander Fleming

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Alexander Fleming
(1881-1955)
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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

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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

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The present

• His discovery of penicillin had changed the world
• Penicillin has saved, and is still saving,
  millions of peoples lifes around the world
• But Penicillin could be produced as a drug