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(August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955)
Today commonplace minor infections are of little concern and are easily treated. But, prior to the discovery of penicillin, simple conditions could be a death sentence. Fleming's discovery of penicillin laid the foundation that allowed others to develop the "wonder drug" that has since saved millions of lives. It was from a carefully preserved strain of Fleming's penicillin that Howard Florey and his team completed their work over a decade later.
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Links to More About the Scientist & the Science Nobelprize.org biography: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/fleming-bio.html Time Magazine profiles on the 100 most important people of the 20th Century: http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/fleming.html Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming#Accidental_discovery U.S. News story on Fleming's "accidental" discovery of penicillin: Sliders & Images here Image Flow Here
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Hantula, Richard. Alexander Fleming: By Richard Hantula (Trailblazers of the Modern World) (Ages 4-8) World Almanac Books, 2003. Tames, Richard. Alexander Fleming (Lifetimes Series) (Childrens) Franklin Watts, 1990. Kaye, J. Leonard. Life Of Alexander Flemming (Pioneers in Health and Medicine) (Ages 9-12) 21st Century, 1997.
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