Achievements by Alexander Fleming:
He discovered
penicillin
He was a successful bacteriologist and
professor
Alexander won the Noble prize for physiology and
medicine with Ernst Chain and Howard Florey in
1945
Fleming joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a
lieutenant to work on the study of bacteriology and treatment of septic wounds
in World War I
He made a contribution to the knowledge of gas
gangrene
He was the first person to grow
bacteria
He became a student at St. Mary’s hospital
medical school in London in 1901 and won many awards for his
achievements
In 1921, he discovered that the body fluids like
mucus and tears destroyed bacteria in
vitro