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    Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology‚ immunology‚ and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928‚ for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. In 1999‚ Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most

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    Alexander Fleming Med 241 Introduction To Pharmacology Professor Cornett March 25‚ 2014 This Paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the Associate of Science degree in the Medical Assisting Program at Southern Technical College Scottish biologist‚ pharmacologist‚ and botanist Alexander Fleming born August 6‚ 1881 in Ayrshire‚ Scottland made an accidental discovery that revolutionized medicine. Encouraged by

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    Sir Alexander Fleming‚ FRSE‚ FRS‚ FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist‚ pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology‚ immunology‚ and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928‚ for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.[1] In 1999‚ Time magazine named Fleming one

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    Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology‚ immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928‚ for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Alexander Fleming was born August 6‚ 1881 at Lochfield‚ a farm near Darvel

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    The Great Qualities of Alexander Fleming In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ George and Lennie demonstrate many qualities of friendship. Three qualities that can help cultivate a sincere friendship are intelligence‚ bravery‚ and selflessness. Alexander Fleming was a biologist who lived from 1881 to 1955. Though his early education‚ and his achievements in his research‚ he lived out the qualities of intelligence‚ bravery‚ and selflessness‚ and therefore would have absolutely made for a very true

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    Alexander Fleming Biography… Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield a farm near Darvel in East Ayrshire Scotland. After the war Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents‚ having witnessed the death of many soldiers from septicemia resulting from infected wounds. Unfortunately antiseptics killed the patients’ immunological defences more effectively than they killed the invading bacteria. In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I‚ Fleming described

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    AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING... On a farm in Scotland on August 6‚ 1881‚ an amazing person was born. This amazing person was Alexander Fleming. As a boy he roamed the countryside with his 8 siblings who lived with him in a desolate area of Scotland. The Fleming children had a love for the flora‚ fauna and merry weather that surrounded their farm for miles. Fleming won a scholarship to St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. He went on and passed exams and completed his

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    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

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    Alexander Fleming was a German botanist‚ biologist‚ and pharmacologist who discovered the first antibiotic. He did this through a rather extraordinary happenstance. While working with the properties of the bacterium staphylococcus he left on vacation. When he got back and was cleaning out his work area he noticed that a few of the slides he’d been working on had been contaminated by fungus. Upon noting that the staphylococcus colonize bordering the fungus had died he began asking more questions.

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    Alexander Fleming Webster Heming Kaplan University Alexander Fleming Description Alexander Fleming was a botanist‚ pharmacologist‚ and biologist from Scotland. He made various contributions to the medical fields of chemotherapy‚ immunology‚ and bacteriology. He is best known for discovery of penicillin and the lysozyme enzyme. He won a Nobel Prize in the field of medicine in 1928 for discovery of penicillin. He shared the prize with two other scientists. The discovery

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