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Alexander Fleming
Biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme. -
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Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming, was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin. -
He invented penicillin
When he was in his laboratory he observed that a fungus had grown. This was what he did he discovered penicillin -
Nobel Prize
He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 for making great discoveries, which were lysozyme and penicillin. -
he died
He died at the age of 73, in London
