Alexander Fleming

NOUN
  1. Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
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  • Penicillin, in fact, saved so many lives in its early days that statues of Alexander Fleming were erected at many bullrings around Spain.
  • Although popular mythology credits Alexander Fleming, it was Florey and his team who gave the world the miracle drug, penicillin.
  • It's been more than 70 years since Alexander Fleming discovered that the mold fungus penicillium was effective against bacteria.
  • The search engines would not have realized, as did Sir Alexander Fleming, that the penicillium mold forming on some accidentally spilled rye bread crumbs and preventing staphylococcus bacteria from growing in his Petrie dish could herald the discovery of the life-saving antibiotic, penicillin. Marshall P. Duke: Pancake People, Rise Up!
  • He was surprised at the vast basement area that was used for medical research beneath the Alexander Fleming House building.
  • “In 1928, the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was analyzing a fearsome bacteria in his lab,” the dreamseller said. Dreamseller: The Calling
  • He was surprised at the vast basement area that was used for medical research beneath the Alexander Fleming House building.
  • In his basement laboratory in London, a bacteriologist, Dr. Alexander Fleming, was searching for a substance that would kill deadly bacteria.
  • Alexander Fleming was an excellent microbiologist, very skilled and observant, and he always checked old culture dishes before throwing them out just to see what might turn up.
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