Alexander Fleming - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1945
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Alexander Fleming

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1945
for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
8/6/1881
place of birth
Lochfield
date of death
3/11/1955
place of death
London
Lived
73 years
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/18/1943
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Royal College of Physicians, London
occupation
  • bacteriologist
  • physician
  • inventor
  • surgeon
  • pharmacologist
employer
  • Imperial College London
  • University of London
field of work
  • immunology
  • bacteriology
educated at
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Westminster
  • St Mary's Hospital Medical School
  • Imperial College School of Medicine
  • Kilmarnock Academy
position held
  • Rector of the University of Edinburgh
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