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Alexander Fleming: Sir Alexander Fleming
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Alexander Fleming was born on a farm in Scotland in 1881. He moved from Scotland to London. He fought in a war that took place in South Africa. Sir Alexander Fleming was the inventor of penicillin. He discovered penicillin in the year, 1928. He was a bacteriologist.
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Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
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In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed that colonies of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus could be destroyed by the mold Penicillium notatum, proving that there was an antibacterial agent there in principle. This principle later lead to medicines that could kill certain types of disease-causing bacteria inside the body.
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