Alexander Fleming

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.

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Who was born first?

• Alexander Fleming and Theodore von Kármán were born the same year
• Alexander Fleming and Ettore Bugatti were born the same year
• Alexander Fleming was born 1 year before Robert H. Goddard
• Alexander Fleming was born 1 year after Gideon Sundback
• Alexander Fleming was born 1 year before Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

Timeline

1. Gideon SundbackApril 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954
2. Alexander Fleming (this page)August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955
3. Ettore BugattiSeptember 15, 1881 – August 21, 1947
4. Theodore von KármánMay 11, 1881 – May 7, 1963
5. Julius Edgar LilienfeldApril 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963
6. Robert H. GoddardOctober 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945

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