Sir alexander Fleming

• Brief background• Louis Pasteur• Lord Lister• Sir Metchnikoff and his idea of body’s natural

defense

• Topic• Sir Alexander Fleming(birth , childhood,

education , career, personal life , interests ,personality and death)

• Sir Alexander’s discovery of LYSOZYMES..• Sir Alexander’s discovery of penicillin• Manufacture of penicillin for human use

Louis PasteurA French chemist, discovered that diseases are caused by living organisms (bacteria or germs or microbes or micro-organisms) that are so small that they can not be seen with the naked eye

Lord Lister

An English surgeon, he applied Pasteur’s discover to surgery

Metchnikoff

How White Blood Cells Work.mp4

Birth

Sir Alexander Fleming was born on august 6,1881,in a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire.

childhood

His family called him little alec..bcz he was very small for his age When alexander was 7 his father died so now as father died the family had now less money to live with..

Education

Alec started school when he was ten and he went to a primary school called Loudoun Moor in Darvel, Ayrshire.

In 1893 Alec starts school at Kilmarnock Academy in Ayrshire at the age of twelve.

He left the Kilmarnock academy and went to London. He then attends Regent Street Polytechnic school in London for two years

When he was fourteen,

WHEN HE WAS SIXTEEN, HE LEAVES THE SCHOOL BECAUSE OF LACK OF MONEY. AFTER HE DROPS OUT, SIR ALEXANDER BECOMES A SHIPPING CLERK. HE WORKS IN THE LEADEN HALL STREET FOR FOUR YEARS.

In 1901 Alexander Fleming enrolls in St. Mary Medical School in London.

FOR EIGHT YEARS HE WORKED IN WRIGHT ’S LABORATORY TO FIND A MEANS TO AID THE LEUCOCYTES IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST INVADING BACTERIA

In 1914 sir Alexander joined R.A.M.C.The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace.

WORLD WAR -1

Professor wright and alexander :discussing about the diseases in world war 1

Discovery of lysozymesIn 1922,sir Alexander had a cold

when he was working with Petri dishes with bacteria on them. He accidentally sneezed on one of the dishes and it was sprayed with mucus. He was going to remove it, but he was curious to see what would happen. So he left the mucus on the dish and he later examined it. Alec discovered the mucus had dissolved the bacteria and killed it. Sir Alexander tried the same experiment with tears. He studied the human and animal samples and all the samples had the bacteria-killing substance. He called the substance a lysozyme.

DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN

The discovery of penicillin (1964).mp4

Making of penicillin for human use..

The discovery of penicillin (1964) (1).mp4

The pub opposite Fleming's laboratory that claims to have provided the source of the spores.

Fleming's second floor laboratory window

Personal life: he married Dr. Amalia Voureka, a Greek bacteriologist in 1952.

interests

Germ Paintings created by Sir Alexander Fleming

Fleming was a member of Chelsea Arts Club and produced many germ paintings using different pigmented bacteria.

Fleming’s painting made of microbes

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION..

Memberships in 87 Scientific Academies and Societies The Nobel Prize with Howard Florey and Ernst B. Chain for Physiology or Medicine in 1945.

Collected 25 Honorary Degrees 26 Medals 18 Prizes 13 statues

Fleming and Florey were knighted in 1944

Death..

He dies of a heart attack in London on March the 11th 1955. He was 73 years, 7 months and 5 days old when he died .

Time line1.Sir alexander born on 8 august 1881

2.in 1893 he went to the Kilmarnock academy

3.In 1895 he went to London and studied at Regent street polytechnic

4.In 1897 he left the school and worked as a shipping clerk

5.In 1901 he joined saint Mary school

6.In 1914 he joined R.A.M.C

8.IN 1922 HE DISCOVERED LYSOZYMES

9.IN 1928 HE DISCOVERED PENICILLIN

7.FLEMING MARRIED IN 1952

10.HE was knighted in 1944.

12.He was given the noble prize award in 1955.

13.He died in 1955

Presentation made by :Iram Naeem