Another Alexander,
Sir Alexander Fleming, noted while accepting the 1945 Nobel Prize awarded for his 1928 discovery of penicillin that "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."
A SAMPLE of scientist
Sir Alexander Fleming's original penicillin mould has sold for PS4,720 at auction.
SIR Alexander Fleming's sharp eye saved countless millions of lives when he found that mould growing in his petri dish created abacteria-free substance we all know as penicillin.
It was
Sir Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.
Penicillin, discovered by
Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928, became the first widely used antibiotic in the 1940s.
Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered the life-saving drug penicillin, died of a heart attack at his London home at the age of 73.
If
Sir Alexander Fleming hadn't done the same in 1928 it could have been me with the knighthood and the Nobel Prize.
Sir Alexander Fleming. The discovery of penicillin has to be one of the greatest contributions to good in the world - and it's a scientific breakthrough that's never been perverted for evil ends.
'And that
Sir Alexander Fleming who invented it, he was a real prat.
The inventor of penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming had been a promoter of the medicinal properties of ``a good tipple of hot whisky at bedtime -it's not very scientific but it works.''
Maybe Bonhof believes we should also stop revering Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Alexander Graham Bell and
Sir Alexander Fleming.