Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be ...

In the book ‘Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution’, a biography of Alexander Fleming, the author, Kevin Brown, stated that Alexander Fleming referred to this story ...

It’s the mycelial spark that touched off an antibiotic revolution. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming recognized the potential of Penicillium mold when he found it growing in his less ...

Nevertheless, Burr remains best known as the slayer of Alexander Hamilton ... intricately plotted book takes readers back in time to colonial New York. Bestselling novelist Fleming (Officers ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...