Alexander Fleming was born (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) in East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1881. He was a biologist and pharmacologist most famous for his discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928. He was awarded a Nobel Prize, jointly with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for medicine in 1945 .After four years of working in a shipping company, an inheritance gave Fleming the chance to train as a physician at St Mary’s Hospital London. From here he moved to the research department, specialising in the relatively new science of bacteriology.
