ALEXANDER FLEMING (DISCOVERER OF PENICILLIN)

Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955) was the man known as the discoverer of penicillin (an antibiotic to fight bacteria). Born on a farm near Darvel Lochfield, Scotland. He was the third of four brothers and half-brother has four people again.

Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and then for two years he attended Kilmarnock Academy. After working in an office delivery service for four years, 20-year-old Fleming was partly inherited from his uncle's property.

Fleming's brother, who was then a doctor suggested that his younger brother following in the footsteps of his career, so that Alexander Fleming in 1901 and then enrolled at the Hospital of St. Mary's, London. He then obtain a special qualification for school in the year 1906 with an option to be a surgeon. Alexander Fleming himself famous because she is an expert researcher who is very clever, but the lab itself is often clumsy and look messy.

In 1928, after coming home from a long holiday, Fleming will afterthought in the disc of bacteria in the laboratory forgot to save it nicely, and has been contaminated with a type of mushroom. Some laboratory dish containing the bacteria in the waste, but then Fleming noticed that the growth of bacteria in the contaminated by the fungus becomes obstructed. Fleming then took samples of examples of these fungi and examine it, he discovered that the fungus is from the genus Penicillium. This is why the drug called penicillin.

Fleming's discovery in September 1928 marked a new century in the world of modern antibiotics. Fleming also found that the bacteria themselves can develop resistance and resistance to penicillin when penicillin is used as an antibiotic is too little and used in the short term.