Name: Muhammad Ali Fayyaz Teacher: Miss Fatima Yaseem Class : VIII Section: T Subject: General Science Research on: Alexander Fleming

PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER FLEMING BORN : 6 August 1881 Loch field , East Ayrshire, Scotland Died : 11 March 1955 (aged 73) London, England` Citizenship : British Fields : Bacteriology , immunology Alma mater : Royal Polytechnic Institution St Mary's Hospital Medical School Imperial College London Known for : Discovery of penicillin Notable awards : FRS (1943) Nobel Prize (1945) FRSE FRCS(Eng) Knight Bachelor (1944) SIGNATURE :

Who was Alexander Fleming ???? Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic.

ABOUT PERSONAL HIS LIFE On 24 December 1915, Fleming married a trained nurse, Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala , County Mayo, Ireland. Their only child, Robert Fleming, (1924 - 2 July 2015) became a general medical practitioner. Robert married Kathleen, a trained radiographer on 10 September 1955 and had two children: Andrew (b. 1956) and Sarah (b. 1959). Fleming has two great grandsons (James and Christopher) and one great grand daughter (Claire). After Sarah's death in 1949, Fleming married Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, a Greek colleague at St. Mary's, on 9 April 1953; she died in 1986.

What he has discovered ??? In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery until 1945.

Death of Alexander Fleming On 11 March 1955, Fleming died at his home in London of a heart attack. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.

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