Alexander Fleming

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Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6,1881-March 11,1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He is best known for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928. He shared a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 for this discovery with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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