Alexander Fleming

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Alexander Fleming: Biotechnology and the Discovery of Penicillin Sarah King James J. Cheetham, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 BIOL1010 T "When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer… But I suppose that was exactly what I did.” Sir Alexander Fleming, already well known for his research on lysozymes, an antibacterial enzyme that occurs naturally in tissues and…

Alexander Fleming What would make a hero would be someone who changed the world in a good way or someone who changed someone’s life to make it better. Alexander Fleming is a hero because during his early life Fleming had an education. He went to school and graduated. Fleming studied medicine and became a doctor and then later on Fleming studied in the laboratory. Fleming was experimenting a lot, and he discovered penicillin. Alexander thought soon his invention could save lives, and it came…

In 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology (medicine) for their work on creating penicillin, but Norman Heatley, who also helped develop penicillin, did not receive the Nobel Prize for his work. If it were not for Heatley, the other scientists he worked with, and the scientists before him, the creation of the drug we know as penicillin today would not have been created. Penicillin is considered the first antibiotic drug…

like Sulfa powder of Atabrine, easy to use. morphine, penicillin and blood plasma were other life saving medical contributions to World War II. The painkiller, morphine was used by medics and could be injected in ½ grain doses (Steinart). Although morphine could not be accessed quickly by soldiers, it still played a major part in saving lives. In a similar sense, blood plasma which replaces whole blood and maintains a proper pH balance in the body could only be used by medical professionals.…

simple device, it uses microwaves set at 2,500 megahertz to heat food. The water, fat or sugar that is placed in the microwave absorbs the microwaves and is then heated. Food is able to be cooked evenly and quickly since the microwaves are able to penetrate food so fast. Nowadays it would be difficult to find a house that does not actually have one somewhere in it. The list of so called accidental discoveries that have been key to the history of science would definitely not be…

Do you know who,how or what happened to discover the bacteria,and medicine named penicillin ? Well their are many theories and stories but with the information gathered I think you’ll find your answer. To start off with,the person who is credited for discovering the bacteria is a bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming. He discovered the bacteria when he left his laboratory a mess and went on a vacation,when he came back he had found that his dishes had mold and their was one plate that caught…

Thompson supports this by using the anecdotal story of discovering penicillin. According to the story Ernest Duchesne, the original discoverer of penicillin conducted an experiment on a series of animals where he eventually found what is now a form of modern penicillin. His research disappeared and it would take thirty-two years for Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming to rediscover penicillin (60). This story on the surface substantiates Thompson’s claim because such a huge opportunity was…

Alexander Fleming was the genius of “technical ingenuity and original observation.” His efforts on bruise infection and lysozyme, a sterilizing enzyme found in tears and saliva, granted him a place in the history of bacteriology. Fleming work during WW 1 was against antiseptics on deep wounds, but most physicians did not trust his findings. Fleming’s work and diligence got him knighted in 1944. Sir Alexander Fleming was born August 6, 1881, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Sir Alexander Fleming lived at…

Alexander Fleming “discovered the existence penicillin through a combination of perceptiveness and luck” (Krogh, 2011, p. 398). While he was growing bacteria in a petri dish, he notices the appearance of a type of fungus. The contamination caught the attention of Fleming. He realizes that he had found a substance that had the power to kill bacteria. Fleming continued to grow more fungal mold and tested it on different kind of bacteria. Additionally, he tested it on healthy mice in which he…