Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming

6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955

Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist

Enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington at age 20

Served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps

After WW I, Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents

Antiseptics killed the patients' immunological defences more effectively than they killed bacteria

In 1921, Fleming discovered "lysozyme", an enzyme that had an antibacterial effect.

Accidental discovery of penicilin (more on that in a moment)

Married 2 times (the second time at the age of 71...)

Recieved numerous awards for his invention:

Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. Knighted, as a Knight Bachelor, by

king George VI in 1944He was made a Knight Grand Cross

of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 1948.

Several Alex Fleming campuses

Streets, schools, squares and asteroids have been named after him

His face is on the 5 £ notes made by the Clydesdale Bank

September 28th 1928.

Staphylococcus Petri dish

Blue mold - penicilin

The story of the penicilin

Group of antibiotics

Killing bacteria which cause illness

Injections and pills

What is it used for?

"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, but I suppose that was exactly what I did.“

Cholera, tetanus, salmonela, E coli...

Medical contribution

Nedžad Zahirović

Mirza Delibašić

April 2015.

The End