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SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING

Birth
SIR ALEXANDER
FLEMING WAS
BORN ON
AUGUST
6,1881,IN A
FARM NEAR
DARVEL,IN
AYRSHIRE.

Childhood
He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh

Fleming(1816-1888)from his second marriage to

Grace Stirling Morton(1848-19280),the daughter of
a neighboring farmer.Hug Fleming had four
surviving children from his first marriage.he was 59
at the time of his second marriage.
His family called him little alec. Because 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.
When he was fourteen He left the Kilmarnock academy and went to
London. He then attends Regent Street Polytechnic school in London
for two years

In 1901 Alexander
Fleming enrolls in
St Mary Mery
Medical school in
London.

Work
For eight years he worked in wright
laboratory to find a means to aid the
the leucocytes in their fight against
invading bacteria

Work
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.

Work Place

The pub opposite Fleming's laboratory that claims to have

provided the source of the spores.

Discovery of lysozymes
In 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.

Antibiotics
Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's
discovery.
Fleming's accidental discovery and isolation of penicillin in
September 1928 marks the start of modern antibiotics . Before that,
several scientists had published or pointed out that mould or
penicillium sp. were able to inhibit bacterial growth, and even to
cure bacterial infections in animals. Ernest Duchesne in 1897 in his
thesis "Contribution to the study of vital competition in microorganisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes", or also
Clodomiro Picado Twight whose work at Institut Pasteur in 1923 on
the inhibiting action of fungi of the "Penicillin sp" genre in the
growth of staphylococci drew little interest from the direction of the
Institut at the time. Fleming was the first to push these studies
further by isolating the penicillin, and by being motivated enough
to promote his discovery at a larger scale.

Fleming was a member of Chelsea Arts

Club and produced many germ paintings
using different pigmented bacteria.

Germ Paintings created by

Sir Alexander Fleming

Flemings painting
made of microbes

Fleming personality
Fleming was a shy man
Flaming also was Lackluster lecture who was

described by one student as a shocking lecturer the

worsted you could possibly imagine
Nevertheless Fleming inspired many by his future
work

Personal Life
Personal life: he married Dr. Amalia
Voureka, a Greek bacteriologist in 1952.
Their only child, Robert Fleming, (b.
1924 died 2 July 2015) became
a general medical practitioner; Robert
married Kathleen a trained
radiographer on 10 September 1955
and had two children Andrew (b. 1956)
and Sarah (b. 1959)

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 .

Myths
The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying

for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved

young Winston from death is false. According to the
biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and
the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander
Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre
Gratia, described this as "A wondrous fable." Nor did
he save Winston Churchill himself during World War
II. was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides,
since he had no experience with penicillin, when
Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming#

E
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/l
aureates/1945/fleming-bio.htmlarly_life_and_educa
tion
http://www.biography.com/people/alexander-flem
ing-9296894

Thank you