Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming
noun
Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
Instance Hypernyms: ↑bacteriologist

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Alexander Fleming [Alexander Fleming]
(1881–1955) a Scottish scientist who became well known for discovering ↑penicillin, the firstantibiotic that successfully killed bacteria and cured infections. He was made a ↑knight in 1944, and in 1945 shared the ↑Nobel Prize for medicine with two ↑colleagues who helped him to develop the use of ↑penicillin.

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