Background:
Sir Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, in Lochfield. When he was old enough, he began to
attend Louden Moor School, Darvel School and Kilmarnock Academy before he moved
to London. When he moved to London
he went to the Polytechnic. Fleming was the child of Hugh Fleming and Grace
Stirling Morton. He was the third
of four kids. He focused on school
and grew up to be very smart.
Thanks to Alexander’s older brother Tom, he enrolled at St. Mary’s
Hospital, to become something similar to his brother which was a physicist. Later he became a qualified
surgeon. Then after his work at
St. Mary’s, he joined the Royal Army because he wanted to study bacteriology and
treatment of septic wounds in World War I. Alexander than went to study more
closely of bacteriology.
On December 23, 1915, Alexander married his first wife Sarah Marion
McElroy. Sarah was a trained nurse
and later had a kid together.
Unfortunately, she died in 1949 leaving him with his child.
Later however, he got remarried to Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas. She was a Greek colleague who worked at
St. Mary’s Hospital with Fleming.
In London in 1955, Alexander Fleming died in his home.
He died from a heart attack and was cremated to ashes a week later. People remember him as a noble man who
made a great contribution to the world.