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The poster is a black and white drawing portrait of the great scientist Alexander Fleming.

A British physician, biologist and pharmacologist, he discovered penicillin from a fungus with antibiotic properties.

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Biography of Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming, a British physician, biologist and pharmacologist, was born on a farm in Lochfield on August 6, 1881 near Darvel in East Ayrshire. His greatest discovery was penicillin in 1928.

Hugh Fleming (1848-1888), his father, died when he was only seven years old.

At the age of 13, Fleming graduated from the local school and went on to study at Regent Street Polytechnic. His career began when, in 1901, he obtained a scholarship to study medicine at Saint Mary’s Hospital in London.

In 1908, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine, the title of Companion of the Royal College of Surgeons, a gold medal from the University of London and became a lecturer in 1909 at Saint Mary’s Hospital until 1914.

In 1915, Alexander Fleming married Sarah Marion Mac Elroy, a nurse. After graduating from Saint Mary’s Hospital, the medical school of the University of London, the scientist served during the First World War as a captain in the British Royal Army Medical Corps.

He returned to his research and teaching at Saint Mary’s Hospital in 1918 and was awarded a professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1919 and a lectureship in 1928. Alexander’s discovery of penicillium enabled him to find a substance with antibacterial and therefore anti-infectious properties: penicillin.

Published in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1929, this discovery played a major role in the study of enzymatic mechanisms. The use of penicillin during the Second World War treated many thousands of sick and wounded people.

In 1945 Alexander Fleming was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, who contributed to the antibiotic revolution with penicillin.

Fleming continued his work and research until March 11, 1955 when he died of a heart attack at the age of 73. His ashes were cremated and buried in the crypt of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.