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Alexander Fleming
6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955
Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist
Enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington at age 20
Served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps
After WW I, Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents
Antiseptics killed the patients' immunological defences more effectively than they killed bacteria
In 1921, Fleming discovered "lysozyme", an enzyme that had an antibacterial effect.
Accidental discovery of penicilin (more on that in a moment)
Married 2 times (the second time at the age of 71...)
Recieved numerous awards for his invention:
Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. Knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by
king George VI in 1944He was made a Knight Grand Cross
of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 1948.
Several Alex Fleming campuses
Streets, schools, squares and asteroids have been named after him
His face is on the 5 £ notes made by the Clydesdale Bank
September 28th 1928.
Staphylococcus Petri dish
Blue mold - penicilin
The story of the penicilin
Group of antibiotics
Killing bacteria which cause illness
Injections and pills
What is it used for?
"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, but I suppose that was exactly what I did.“
Cholera, tetanus, salmonela, E coli...
Medical contribution
Nedžad Zahirović
Mirza Delibašić
April 2015.
The End