Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming, The Father of Penicillin On August 6, 1881, Alexander Fleming was born, a scientist who dedicated his life to research and who, as a result of an oversight, made one of the most important discoveries of medicine: penicillin. This antibiotic that has saved millions of lives also earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. Joseph Gavaldá The discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Scotsman Alexander Fleming is the most important case of serendipity or accidental discovery in history. It all happened when the Scottish scientist went on holiday and forgot a bacterial culture plate where by chance a fungus grew. On his return eureka! he stumbled upon the scientific finding of the century without which Fleming, despite being a brilliant researcher, would have been nothing more than a footnote in the history of medical microbiology. Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881, near Darvelen Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the third of four children born of his father's secon