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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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In a modest laboratory in London, Alexander Fleming is on the verge of discovering our first wonder drug, penicillin, and in a movie studio in Los Angeles a Missourian named Walt Disney is putting the finishing whiskers on a cartoon character he calls Mickey Mouse.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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In September 1928 Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory and discovered that one of the petri dishes he had inadvertently left out over the summer was overgrown with staphylococci except for the area surrounding a mold colony.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the beneficial properties of penicillin was ignored and rejected by the experts for twenty years before the value of his findings were finally acknowledged.
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, a relatively innocuous antibiotic because it interfered with the synthesis of cells walls, a process specific to bacteria, rather than with metabolism.
1929: Alexander Fleming observes the effect Penicillin has on bacteria.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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" In 1928, Alexander Fleming isolated penicillin, the first of the antibiotics, from the common mold Penicillium , an achievement for which he received the Nobel prize in medicine in 1945.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who saved millions of lives by discovering penicillin - is the runaway winner of our poll, closely followed by William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Alexander Fleming Allbright was born on October 20, 1812 in Hall Co, Ga.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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It is heartening to learn that Sir Alexander Fleming, Robert Burns, James Watt, Adam Smith and Sir Walter Scott are all so highly regarded by the present-day population of our country, and certainly we, the freemasons of Scotland, take great pride in these famous individuals having been actively associated with the work of our order.
I drove through a small town in Ayrshire, Scotland and might have thought it unremarkable until I saw a sign which proclaimed it to be the birthplace of Alexander Fleming - the discoverer of penicillin.
In 1928, Alexander Fleming famously discovered that spores of mould were capable of killing a culture of bacteria.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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You all know the story of how Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, don't you?
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