History
Name of person Alexander Fleming
Date of birth: 6 August 1881
Palce of birth : Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland
Nationality : Scottish
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist andbotanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozymein 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.
Early life and education
Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816–1888) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton (1848–1928), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second marriage, and died when Alexander (known as Alec) was seven.
Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution. After working in a shipping office for four years, the twenty-year-old Fleming inherited some money from an uncle, John Fleming. His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he should follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington; he qualified with an MBBS degree from the school with distinction in 1906.
Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900, and had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school. The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and immunology. In 1908, he gained a BSc degree with Gold Medal inBacteriology, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914. Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He and many of his colleagues worked in battlefield hospitals at the Western Front in France. In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928. In 1951 he was elected the Rector of the University of Edinburgh for a term of 3 years.
The events of the years
• Fleming, Florey and Chain jointly received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize. Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.
• Fleming was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
• Fleming was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London
• Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.
• He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 1948.
• In 1999, Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century, stating:
It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mould, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency. When it was finally recognized for what it was, the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world, penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections. By the middle of the century, Fleming's discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind's most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
• When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.
• In 2002, Fleming was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a nationwide vote.[30]
• A statue of Alexander Fleming stands outside the main bullring in Madrid, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.[31] It was erected by subscription from grateful matadors, as penicillin greatly reduced the number of deaths in the bullring.
• Flemingovo náměstí is a square named after Fleming in the university area of the Dejvice community in Prague.
• A secondary school is named after him in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank; his image appears on the new issue of £5 notes.
• 91006 Fleming, an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, is named after Fleming.
History
Name of person Alexander Fleming
Date of birth: 6 August 1881
Palce of birth : Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland
Nationality : Scottish
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist andbotanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozymein 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.
Early life and education
Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816–1888) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton (1848–1928), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second marriage, and died when Alexander (known as Alec) was seven.
Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution. After working in a shipping office for four years, the twenty-year-old Fleming inherited some money from an uncle, John Fleming. His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he should follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington; he qualified with an MBBS degree from the school with distinction in 1906.
Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900, and had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school. The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's, where he became assistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy and immunology. In 1908, he gained a BSc degree with Gold Medal inBacteriology, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914. Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches. He and many of his colleagues worked in battlefield hospitals at the Western Front in France. In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928. In 1951 he was elected the Rector of the University of Edinburgh for a term of 3 years.
The events of the years
• Fleming, Florey and Chain jointly received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize. Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.
• Fleming was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
• Fleming was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London
• Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Fleming was knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by king George VI in 1944.
• He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 1948.
• In 1999, Time magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century, stating:
It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mould, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency. When it was finally recognized for what it was, the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world, penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections. By the middle of the century, Fleming's discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind's most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
• When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.
• In 2002, Fleming was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a nationwide vote.[30]
• A statue of Alexander Fleming stands outside the main bullring in Madrid, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.[31] It was erected by subscription from grateful matadors, as penicillin greatly reduced the number of deaths in the bullring.
• Flemingovo náměstí is a square named after Fleming in the university area of the Dejvice community in Prague.
• A secondary school is named after him in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank; his image appears on the new issue of £5 notes.
• 91006 Fleming, an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, is named after Fleming.
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