Research Paper On Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming is a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. In 1999, the Times magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his discovery of penicillin. While penicillin is widely cited as one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, uncertainty over whether or not Alexander Fleming actually discovered it caused many to question his 1945 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Critics questioned the novelty of Fleming's find, referencing studies dating back to the 1870s that note the bacteria-fighting properties of the mold Penicillium notatum. Even Fleming himself admitted the discovery was a complete accident and conceded that the first known reference to penicillin was actually from Psalm 51: "Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean." In the end though, he was indeed the first person to isolate and produce penicillin, which has since saved millions of lives worldwide, so he is worthy of high praise.
So, after completing his education at Regent Street Polytechnic in London in 1897, he took an office job for a few years.
In 1901, he quit his job and went to St. Mary Hospital to study medicine. Then he worked in Almroth Wright's research team as a research assistant with a strong interest in bacteriology. 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. He argued that antiseptics were not effective in preventing wounds from becoming infected. His argument was, however, rejected and little was done to relieve the suffering of many wounded
soldiers.
On the whole, he was a talented man who not only made a great contribution to bacteriology, immunology, but was also behind a number of billions of people, who were saved with the help of his discovery. When World War I was over, Fleming continued working at St. Mary's Hospital. One day in 1928, before tossing some old petri dishes of culture away, he made an accidental discovery of a blue mold growing on the culture of some harmful kind of bacteria. The mold seemed to be able to kill off the bacteria. A series of experiments later proved his findings and led to the discovery of penicillin. It was a strain of penicillia which could kill off bacteria while not causing any damage to wounds. It worked against many kinds of bacteria and was mostly safe for the human body. Unfortunately, with insufficient support from the medical community, the research had to stop.
Finally in the late 1930s, other scientists found a way to mass-produce penicillin. British and American drug companies began to manufacture the drug in large quantites. It was then used to cure many infections during World War II. In 1945, Fleming was presented the Nobel Prize for Medicine. He humbly said, "Nature makes penicillin; I just found it." Fleming was married twice and had one son. He spent the rest of his career at St. Mary's Hospital until his death in 1955 of a sudden heart attack.
For the above mentioned reasons, we can see that thanks to this person, one can say with certainty, that our world become a little bit more safer, and our losses are not so dramatic, as they could be, for instance, 90 years ago. It is often alleged that, it was a discovery that would change the course of history. By the middle of the century, Fleming’s discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical/ˌfɑːmə'sjuːtɪk(ə)l/ industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind’s most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene & tuberculosis/t(j)uːˌbɜːkjə'ləusɪs/, and others.