Alexander Fleming Quotes

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist whose accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, from a mould contaminating his culture plates at St Mary's Hospital, London, ushered in the antibiotic era. Developed into a drug by Florey and Chain, penicillin transformed medicine and saved hundreds of millions of lives. Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery.