Short biography about the life of alexander fleming

1. Group 9
Presents

2. A Glimpse into the Life of
ALEXANDER FLEMING

3. Interesting Facts about
Alexander Fleming
Alexander
Fleming was
born in Ayrshire,
Scotland on
August 6, 1881.
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4. 2 He attended medical school in
London and graduated in
1906. He studied bacteriology.

5. 3
Fleming assisted in battlefield
hospitals in France during World
War I (1911 – 1918) where he
observed soldiers dying of
septicemia or some infection in
spite of surviving initial
battlefield wounds.

6. 4
In 1927 he investigated the properties of
staphylococci. The laboratory where Fleming
discovered and tested penicillin is named the
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum in St.
Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

7. 5 Fleming made the discovery of penicillin
public in 1929 after conducting many
experiments. The research did not stir up
enough interest though he published a
report in the British Journal of
Experimental Pathology and he continued
worked on the mold for several years.

8. 6The penicillin
mold was purified
and became a very
viable antibiotic
all over the world
due to the efforts
of Howard Florey
and Ernst Chain
during World War
I

9. 7Fleming received the Nobel Prize for
physiology and medicine in 1945
along with Florey and Chain.

10. That’s all folks!
Cruz, Ignacio and
Kalano over and out.