What is Alexander Fleming?
[[File:Alexander Fleming 1945.jpg|thumb|Sir Alexander Fleming]] [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Alexander Fleming''' (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[biologist]] and [[pharmacologist]]. His father Hugh, died at 59 when Alexander was only seven. He is best known for discovering the [[antibiotic]] [[substance]] [[penicillin]] in 1928. He shared Nobel [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1945 for this discovery with [[Howard Florey|Howard Walter Florey]] and [[Ernst Boris Chain]]. His accidental finding of penicillin in the year 1928 marked the start of today's [[antibiotics]]. Fleming was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps during [[World War I]]. He saw many soldiers die of [[infection]] after being wounded, and after the war did research in [[bacteriology]]. After accidentally finding penicillin he studied ways to use it. Fleming died of a heart attack in [[London]]. He was buried in St. Paul's cathedral. . {{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine}} {{Nobelprize|Physiology or Medicine}} ==Related pages== *[[List of biologists]] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming, Alexander}} [[Category:1881 births]] [[Category:1955 deaths]] [[Category:British Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Knights Bachelor]] [[Category:British pharmacologists]] [[Category:Scottish biologists]]