Sir Alexander Fleming was born August 6, 1881, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Sir Alexander Fleming lived at Lochfield Farm. Fleming was the 7 of eight children, at 13 he and his family moved to London and Fleming attended school at Regent Street Polytechnic. Farther Hugh Fleming was a farmer who married his mother Grace Morton. Grace and Hugh were born and …show more content…
After World War 1 Fleming returned to St. Mary’s. In 1928, he studied influenza in bacteria and he went on vacation came back there was an accident in his lab. Mold had developed accidently set on a couple of culture dishes being used to grow staphylococci germ. Fleming noticed that the mold had created a bacteria free circle around itself. Fleming’s discoveries that would be later called penicillin won him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 along with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain. Fleming was elected professor of bacteriology at the University of London in 1948, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1943 and Knighted in 1944. Fleming was awarded the HP by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Time Magazine was named one of the ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.’
Fleming first wife, Sarah Marion McElroy was an Irish nurse, Fleming’s second wife Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Voureskas. Amalia was a Greek colleague of Flemings at St. Mary’s. Fleming had a son named Robert who was a general medical practitioner. Robert married Kathleen a radiographer in 1955 and had 2 children. Sir Alexander Fleming died in London of a heart attack, he was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Sir Alexander Fleming described, “Before the discovery was shy, uncommunicative, poor lecture, but turned into a well-known