Alexander Fleming By Lewis N Danielle
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WHO WAS HE?
- Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1881, the son of a farmer
- Was a chemist working at st Mary's hospital
- Something funny
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In 1928, while studying influenza, Fleming noticed that mould had developed accidentally on a set of culture dishes being used to grow the staphylococci germ. The mould had created a bacteria-free circle around itself. Fleming experimented further and named the active substance penicillin
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Two scientists in Oxford read Flemings research and set up a team including a range of specialists to develop penicillin
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In December 1941 the USA entered the Second World War and the us government was now prepared to fund the mass production of penicillin.
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