| Alexander Fleming  Born: 6-Aug-1881
Birthplace: Lochfield, Ayr, Scotland
Died: 11-Mar-1955
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist Nationality: Scotland
Executive summary: Discovered penicillin Military service: Royal Army Medical Corps (WWI) Wife: Sarah Marion (d. 1949, one son)
Wife: Amalia Coutsouris (fellow coworker, m. 1953)
Medical School: St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London University (1906)
Professor: Hunterian Professor, London University (1919)
Knighthood 1944
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1945 (shared with Ernst B. Chain and Howard Florey)
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal College of Surgeons 1909
Royal Society 1943
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1947)
Asteroid Namesake 91006 Fleming
Is the subject of books:
Fleming, Discoverer of Penicillin, 1952, BY: Laurence James Ludovici
Alexander Fleming, the Man and the Myth, 1984, BY: Gwyn Macfarlane
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