biography
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Fleming, Sir Alexander
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1955)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born near Darvel, East Ayrshire, SW Scotland, UK. He studied at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he became professor (1919) after serving in the army during World War 1. He was the first to use antityphoid vaccines on human beings, pioneered the use of Salvarsan against syphilis, and discovered the antiseptic powers of lysozyme. In 1928 he discovered penicillin, for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1943, and was knighted in 1944. |
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