ALEXANDER FLEMINGRafael Rodríguez

David Curto

Who was Fleming? Alexander Fleming was a Scottish

biologist. He won the Nobel Prize of Medicine in

1945. He is well known for the invention of

Penicillin. He was born on the sixth August

1881, and died on the eleventh March 1955.

What did he work on? Alexander worked as a biologist for all

his life. His father died when he was 7 years

old. He decided to study the virus and the

bacteria to try to find a cure for illness because he appreciated his father and didn´t want another person to feel what he felt

The discovery of penicillin. One day looking at a mushroom

through a microscope, he found that the Penicillin helped the fury disappear from an object.

A day later, a neighbour came with her son asking for the cure. He hadn´t tried before, not even with an animal. Two days later the child got better and Fleming patented the medicine.

PENICILLIN Nowadays, penicillin is a world known

medicine. It’s used to cure from simple illness such as a cold, and for relieving pain and making the fever go down.

Alexander Fleming made one of the most important discoveries of the world .