07/08/2018
Today marks the birthday of Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, born in 1881.
Fleming's discovery marked the beginning of the age of antibiotics, but in 1945 he already warned us of the dangers of their overuse in his Nobel Prize lecture.
Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS[1] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium nota...