Alexander Fleming was born on a farm in Scotland in 1881. He moved from
Scotland to London. He fought in a war that took place in South Africa. Sir Alexander
Fleming was the inventor of penicillin. He discovered penicillin in the year, 1928. He was
a bacteriologist. He came up with penicillin when he was trying find a way to kill
bacteria. Before he discovered penicillin he came up with lysozyme, a sobstance that kills
the germs that aren't very serious and do not cause diseases. Alexander Fleming found out
about penicillin accidently. When Alexander Fleming first saw penicillin it did not look
like the medicine we have these days, it looked like some blue mold. Fleming knew it could
be a kind of medicine because he noticed that around the mold the bacteria had disolved.
The blue mold that Alexander Fleming saw in his dish destroying bacteria was penicillin.
Penicillin was completed in 1940, by some other scientists in Britain. After penicillin
was completed, Alexander Fleming collected 25 honorary degrees, 26 metals, 18 prizes, 13
decorations, a membership in 87 scientific academies and societies. He was knighted in
1944, then in 1945 he received the Noble prize for physiology or medicine.
Penicillin was the first antibiotic drug and it was first used to cure soldiers in World
War II. Penicillin is almost completely harmless, even in large doses. But the present for
of penicillin has changed greatly because bacteria has made antibodies against this
medicine. Alexander Fleming died in 1955.
