When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first…Alexander Fleming
“Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.”
“Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.”
— ALEXANDER FLEMING
Bacteriologist who discovered penicillin · 1881 – 1955
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.
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