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Scottish Science Hall of Fame: Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, James Hutton, Alexander Fleming, John Napier, William Thomson
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-02.
ISBN 9781155272719
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, James Hutton, Alexander Fleming, John Napier, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell, John Logie Baird, Robert Watson-Watt, Joseph Black. Excerpt: Sir Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist . Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain . In 1999, Time Magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century for his discovery of penicillin, and stated; "It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mold, 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". Biography Early life St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield , a farm near Darvel in East Ayrshire , Scotland. He was the third of the four children of 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 marriag
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