Sir Alexander Fleming M.B., B.S.
Sir Alexander Fleming M.B., B.S.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
Co-Nobelists: Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey
Name: Sir Alexander Fleming
Birth: 6 August 1881, Lochfield, Scotland
Death: 11 March 1955, London, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: London University, London, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”
Field: anti-bacterial agents, bacteriology, biochemistry
Prize share: 1/3
Lone worker gets idea; details developed by team, but prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, perception of an individual.
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Alexander Fleming’s Nobel Prize medal is in the National Museums of Scotland.