In recognition for his contribution, Alexander Fleming was knighted in 1944. With Chain and Florey he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945.

Alexander Fleming was aware that the benefits of penicillin might be fleeting. In 1945, after winning a Nobel prize, he told The New York Times that misuse of the drug would result in antibiotic ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be ...

A story about Winston Churchill and Alexander Fleming is being widely circulated on social media platforms (here, here, here, here, and here).According to this story, a young Winston Churchill was ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the ... Yet the work of the NRRL researchers went largely unrecognized on the world stage; Fleming, Chain, and ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

Step forward Alexander Fleming… Our first superstar wasn’t having any of this staphylococcus nonsense. He saw how it had killed soldiers in the First World War, and set about finding a ...