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	Sir Alexander Fleming
		Alexander Fleming was born on a farm in Scotland in 1881.
		Sir Alexander Fleming was the inventor of penicillin.
		Fleming knew it could be a kind of medicine because he noticed that around the mold the bacteria had disolved.
	www.scotlandvacations.com /fleming.htm (222 words)

	Alexander Fleming. Biografía.
		Alexander Fleming nació el 6 de agosto de 1881 en Lochfield, Gran Bretaña, en el seno de una familia campesina afincada en la vega escocesa.
		Fleming recibió, hasta 1894, una educación bastante rudimentaria, obtenida con dificultad, de la que sin embargo parece haber extraído el gusto por la observación detallada y el talante sencillo que luego habrían de caracterizarle.
		Fleming descubrió la lisozima en 1922, cuando puso de manifiesto que la secreción nasal poseía la facultad de disolver determinados tipos de bacterias.
	www.biografiasyvidas.com /monografia/fleming (885 words)

	Fleming
		Image: Sir Alexander Fleming delivering an address at Medical Society of the District of Columbia, Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
		Alexander Fleming is originally from Scotland, but received his medical education at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London.
		Fleming was not a chemist, and the lack of knowledge in this field hampered the success of penicillin for over a decade, since the drug was unstable and unpredictable in its existing form.
	www.uab.edu /reynolds/MajMedFigs/Fleming.htm (507 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming
		Fleming did not patent his invention, falsely believing that this would help get the invention into the hands of the sick who desparately needed it.
		Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955) is famous as the discoverer of the antibiotic substance lysozyme and for isolating the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum.
		Fleming inspected the petri dish further and found that the bacterial colonies around the fungus were transparent because their cells were lysing.
	www.saumendra.com /legends/Fleming.htm (398 words)

	Alexander Fleming
		Alexander Fleming was born on the 6th of August, 1881 at Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire.
		Fleming discovered that the antiseptics used to treat wounds were more harmful than they were good as they destroyed the bodies natural defences.
		In 1928, Fleming was working on the staphylococci bacteria - the kind that cause boils and sore throats, when, whilst he was examining some old bacterial plates that he noticed a mould had grown on one of his cultures.
	www.zephyrus.co.uk /alexanderfleming.html (490 words)

	::Alexander Fleming and Penicillin::
		Alexander Fleming is alongside the likes of Edward Jenner, Robert Koch, Christian Barnard and Louis Pasteur in medical history.
		Alexander Fleming discovered what was to be one of the most powerful of all antibiotics — penicillin.
		Fleming had a life long interest in ways of killing off bacteria and he concluded that the bacteria on the plate around the ring had been killed off by some substance that had come from the mould.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /alexander_fleming_and_penicillin.htm (450 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming College / Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Alexander wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, including original descriptions of lysozyme and penicillin.
		Fleming, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), 1909, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), 1944, has gained many awards.
		Fleming married again in 1953, his bride was Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Voureka, a Greek colleague at St. Mary's.
	www.fleming.edu.pe /sir_alexander_flemig_biography.htm (537 words)

	Alexander Fleming, Sir Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Alexander Fleming was born on Aug. 6, 1881, at Lochfield, Ayrshire, one of the eight children of Hugh Fleming, a farmer.
		Fleming noted that on a culture plate of staphylococci a mold (Penicillium notatum) which had been introduced by accidental contamination had dissolved the colonies of staphylococci--an example of antibiosis.
		Fleming died on March 11, 1955, and was buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alexander-fleming-sir (1025 words)

	Fleming Sir Alexander: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Alexander Grantham later admitted that to...administration"(23) - and in November, Sir Mark Young agreed that Britain...1950s and perhaps beyond).(25) Sir Alexander Grantham was relieved: in April...
		Flemings surprise discovery of penicillin became one of the...
		Alexander Fleming was born in 1881 at Lochfield Farm, near Darvel...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/fleming-sir-alexander.jsp?l=F&p=2 (1594 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Alexander Fleming
		Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland.
		Fleming had so much going on in his lab that it was often in a jumble.
		Fleming worked with the mold for some time, but refining and growing it was a difficult process better suited to chemists.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmflem.html (831 words)

	Biography on Sir Alexander Fleming
		Fleming was not like most scientist, he was very disorganised, he left thing all over his lab, and only cleaned things when it was necessary.
		Alexander Fleming had found what he was looking for, he called it penicillin.
		"Fleming became world-famous for penicillin, and was rightly acknowledged as the father of modern antibiotics, but Florey was miffed at being denied much of the credit for creating the powerful medical tool we now know" (http://clio.cshl.org/public/history/scientists/fleming.html).
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /edse456/apt/vignettes/fleming.htm (599 words)

	Alexander Fleming - Sir Alexander Fleming Biography, Famous Scientists. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fleming worked with the mould for some time, but refining and growing it was a difficult process better suited to chemists.
		For his achievements, Fleming was knighted in 1944 and shared the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
		Fleming was admitted to the club after he made "germ paintings," in which he drew with a culture loop using spores of highly pigmented bacteria.
	www.famouspeople.co.uk /a/alexanderfleming.html (567 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming: Important Scots
		Sir Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of Penicillin - as well as the antibiotic substance lysozyme - which have both been used to save millions of lives since.
		It was actually because Fleming was disorganised that his two major discoveries were made.
		It was Fleming was cleaning some of them out that he noticed a Fungal Colony had grown next to a streak of bacteria on a sheet of glass.
	www.importantscots.com /sir-alexander-fleming.htm (355 words)

	Upptäckten av Penizillinet 70 år
		Sir Alexander hade vid upptäckten av Penizillinet 1928 en sådan tur, att man dels kan bli vansinnig, och dels med fog skulle kunna säga om Penizillinet att det upptäcktes av en slump.
		En helt annan sak är att (Sir) Alexander vid detta tillfälle sannolikt saknade insikt om att det var sagda mögelart som orsakade hämningszonen, liksom om innebörden av SIR-systemet (det var då ännu inte upptäckt!), och fyndets framtida betydelse för Infektionsläkarföreningen.
		Det råder därför idag ingen tvekan om att Penizillinet upptäcktes av Sir Alexander Fleming och inte av slumpen.
	www.mediahuset-goteborg.se /Infektionslakaren/il398/penizillinet_70_ar.htm (613 words)

	BBC - History - Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
		Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1881, the son of a farmer.
		In 1928, while studying influenza, Fleming noticed that mould had developed accidentally on a set of culture dishes being used to grow the staphylococci germ.
		Fleming wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/fleming_alexander.shtml (261 words)

	Famous Scots - Sir Alexander Fleming
		During the First World War, Fleming saw at first hand the failure of current antiseptics to treat infected wounds and after the war he returned to St Mary's to find a solution to the problem.
		Fleming was knighted in 1944 and Fleming, Florey and Chan received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945.
		Fleming did not patent penicillin, hoping that this would help to develop the product as a cheap and effective drug.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamfleming.htm (250 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 11 \| 1955: Farewell to scientist who discovered penicillin
		Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who first discovered the life-saving drug penicillin - has died of a heart attack.
		For many years, Sir Alexander was Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London and until last year was head of the Wright-Fleming Institute of Micro-Biology at St Mary's hospital, Paddington.
		In a BBC radio programme broadcast in 1945, Sir Alexander spoke of his discovery: "Penicillin is not a cure-all, while it has the most remarkable action on many common microbes which infect us, it has no effect on many others, like tuberculosis, typhoid fever, dysentery, influenza, measles and many others."
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/11/newsid_2538000/2538043.stm (498 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming \| Science and Its Times: 1900-1949
		Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, a "wonder drug" that ushered in the era of antibiotics.
		Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, on a farm in Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland.
		That same year, Fleming was experimenting with the staphylococcus bacteria, and had the good luck to have one of his culture plates contaminated by a mold called Penicillium notatum.
	www.bookrags.com /research/sir-alexander-fleming-scit-061234 (502 words)

	TIME 100: Alexander Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The improbable chain of events that led Alexander Fleming to discover penicillin in 1928 is the stuff of which scientific myths are made.
		Fleming, a young Scottish research scientist with a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory — that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects — when he left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday.
		Fleming was born to a Scottish sheep-farming family in 1881.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/fleming.html (462 words)

	Alexander Fleming
		During the war between Britain and Germany in 1914, Fleming joined the British Royal Army Medical Corps to develop a cure to reduce the number of soldiers dying from infected wounds.
		In 1945, Fleming was presented the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
		Fleming was married twice and had one son.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/flemin.html (370 words)

	The My Hero Project - Sir Alexander Fleming (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alexander went to school and to his disappointment was employed by a shipping firm where he worked for a little while.
		Sir Alexander Fleming died on March 11th in 1955 and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
		Alexander Borodin was an accomplished chemist, composer and staunch advocate of women's rights.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_fleming (1743 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming - The Gift of Pencillin
		Alexander Fleming was born August 6, 1881, near Darvell, Ayrshire, Scotland.
		Fleming conducted research on salvarsan and developed a private practice treating syphilis patients using the new methodology of intravenous injection.
		Fleming served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War I. Fleming demonstrated that chemical antiseptics were not as effective as the body's own defense systems.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies_scientists/103080 (466 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming - Biography
		Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881.
		Sir Alexander wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, including original descriptions of lysozyme and penicillin.
		Fleming married again in 1953, his bride was Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Voureka, a Greek colleague at St. Mary's.
	www.nobel.se /medicine/laureates/1945/fleming-bio.html (556 words)

	The My Hero Project - Sir Alexander Fleming
		Alexander went to school and to his disappointment was employed by a shipping firm where he worked for a little while.
		Sir Alexander Fleming died on March 11th in 1955 and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
		Alexander Borodin was an accomplished chemist, composer and staunch advocate of women's rights.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_fleming (1867 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming 1881-1955
		Fleming was born in Lochfield, nr Darvel in Ayrshire and moved to London to study medicine.
		He achieved his goal in 1928 with his discovery of penicillin although the drug could not be produced commercially for another 15 years.
		Fleming was awarded the Noble Prize and many other awards for his pioneering work although he never patented his discoveries in the hope that this would allow their cheap and plentiful supply.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/alexanderflemming (106 words)

	Fleming saved him from Drowning - The Churchill Centre
		The Churchill-Fleming Non-Connection: The story that Sir Alexander Fleming or his father (the renditions vary) saved Churchill’s life has been roaring around the Internet lately.
		Official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert adds that the ages of Churchill and Fleming (or Fleming’s father) do not support the various accounts circulated; Alexander Fleming was seven years younger than Churchill.
		Sir Martin also notes that Lord Moran’s diaries, while mentioning "MandB," say nothing about penicillin, or the need to fly it out to Churchill in the Near East.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=102 (404 words)

	Fleming Sir Alexander - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881-1955), British bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, best known for his discovery of penicillin.
		The university covers almost every discipline at one or other of its institutions and has a special commitment to medical education and research,...
		In 1876, concerned with the problems of operating rail services over long distances, Fleming made the first proposal for what is now known as...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Fleming_Sir_Alexander.html (104 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881–1955), British bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, best known for his discovery of PENICILLIN.
		Fleming conducted outstanding research in bacteriology, chemotherapy, and immunology.
		In 1945 he shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with the British scientists Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for their contributions to the development of penicillin.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/inventions/fleming_siralexander.html (150 words)

	Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), Scientist; discoverer of penicillin
		Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), Scientist; discoverer of penicillin
		In 1920 Fleming became a lecturer in bacteriology at St Mary's, and discovered lysozyme, the body's natural antibiotic in 1922.
		Fleming shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1945.
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