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Alexander Fleming

Biologist · born 6th August 1881

Date of birth
6 August
Birth year
1881
Lived
74
Zodiac
♌ Leo

About Alexander Fleming

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping to discover the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928. His discovery marked the start of modes antibiotics, which changed the medical world forever.

Alexander Fleming was born 6th August 1881 in Scotland. Their primary profession is listed as biologist. They died in 1955. On 6 August, 601 people in our archive share this birthday.

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