Alexander Fleming was the most famous doctor of his time. He was a Scottish doctor, biologist and pharmacologist born on August 6th 1881.
He published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. His most famous discoveries were the enzyme called lysozyme, discovered in 1922 and an antibiotic called penicillin discovered in 1928.
Thanks to his discovery of the antibiotics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
Regarding his family life, his father, a farmer, died when Alexander was seven and in spite of that, he had a happy childhood. He received a scholarship to study at the Academy of Kilmarnock. I'd like to add that when he was 13,
he went to live with his elder brother in London where he studied at the Polytechnic School in Regent Street. After completing his studies, he worked in a shipping office.
After that, he decided to study medicine. While at St. Mary's Hospital, he won the 1908 gold medal as the top medical student. Few years later, he left the hospital and served as a military doctor during the First World War. Then, he decided to return to his teaching at St Mary's hospital in 1928. Finally, he died on March, 11th 1955 in London at the age of 73.
Hamza
