Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCSwas a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance benzylpenicillinfrom the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth6 August 1881
medicine world antibiotics
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
opportunity hands mind
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
wine people vineyards
Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.
men drug ignorant
It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
bedtime good helps hot scientific whiskey
A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps