Sir Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945

“for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.

Field
Medicine · Bacteriology
Lifespan
1881–1955