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  2. Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia

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    Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS [2] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) ... Fleming was knighted for his scientific achievements in 1944. [8] In 1999, ...

  3. Australian peers and baronets - Wikipedia

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    Both Florey and the discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming, were knighted in 1944. Florey's additional peerage recognised the monumental work he did in making penicillin available in sufficient quantities to save millions of lives in World War II.

  4. Ian Fleming - Wikipedia

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    Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917.

  5. There’s a Hidden Meaning Behind Prince William’s ... - AOL

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    It will be called the Fleming Centre in honor of Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, and it will open in 2028 to mark the centenary anniversary of his discovery.

  6. Portal:Scotland/Selected biographies/44 - Wikipedia

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    Fleming, in his laboratory at St Mary's, Paddington, London . Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

  7. Clan Fleming - Wikipedia

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    The Clan Fleming were Jacobites and the 6th earl attended James II of England and VII of Scotland after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. [3] Fleming opposed the Treaty of Union and voted against every article in the Parliament of 1706. [3] During the Jacobite rising of 1715 he was arrested by the governor of Edinburgh Castle. [3]

  8. Howard Florey - Wikipedia

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    Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM FRS FRCP (/ ˈ f l ɔːr i /; 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.

  9. Almroth Wright - Wikipedia

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    In 1919, Wright returned to St Mary's and remained there until his retirement in 1946. Among the many bacteriologists who followed in Wright's footsteps at St Mary's was Sir Alexander Fleming, who in turn later discovered lysozyme and penicillin. Wright was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1906. [10]