Alexander Fleming 1.- Fleming Was Born On 6 August 1881 At Lochfield. 2.- He Was The Third Of The Four Children Of Farmer Hugh Fleming. 3.- Fleming Went To Loudoun Moor School And Darvel School 4.- He Earned A Two-Year

ALEXANDER FLEMING
1.- Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield.
2.- He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming.
3.- Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School4.- He earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London.
5.- He attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution.
6.- Fleming inherited some money from an uncle, John Fleming.7.- Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900.
8.- Fleming in the team suggested that he join the research department at St Mary's.
9.- He becameassistant bacteriologist to Sir Almroth Wright.
10.- He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908.
11.- And He became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.
12.- On 23 December 1915, Fleming married atrained nurse, Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala.
13.- He and many of his colleagues worked in battlefield hospitals at the Western Front in France
14.- In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital.
15.- Hewas elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928.
16.- Fleming searched for anti-bacterial agents.
17.- Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able toconduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills.
18.-He explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I.
19.- Sir Almroth Wright strongly supportedFleming's findings.
20.- Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci.
21.- He was already well-known from his earlier work.
22.- He had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher,but his laboratory was often untidy.
23.- On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent August on holiday with his family.
24.- He had stacked all his cultures ofstaphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.
25.- Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been...