Healers

Alexander Fleming

Physician and Microbiologist

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Medicine Atlas. "Alexander Fleming." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/alexander-fleming.

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Medicine Atlas. (n.d.). Alexander Fleming. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/alexander-fleming

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@misc{medicineatlas-alexander-fleming,
  author = {Medicine Atlas},
  title = {Alexander Fleming},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/alexander-fleming},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases; his 1928 discovery of what was later named benzylpenicillin has been described as the single greatest victory ever achieved over disease.

Facts

Birth Yearthe subject's own account

1881 1

Birth Datethe subject's own account

1881-08-06 1

Death Yearthe subject's own account

1955 1

Death Datethe subject's own account

1955-03-11 1

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1. Alexander Fleming (Wikipedia)

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Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance discovered. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".

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