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Fleming

Fleming

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A Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin and changed medicine
  • proper noun
translation icon : Alexander Fleming
  • So what saved all those many lives wasn't just Fleming's observation in a Petri dish.
  • Alexander Fleming

So what saved all those many lives wasn't just Fleming's observation in a Petri dish.

Examples

  • Penicillin and Sir Alexander Fleming!

    Master Harold... and the Boys (2010)

  • After reading the proposed rules, Fleming sent a four-page letter to DEM Director Louise Durfee.

    Academic text (1996)

  • I was particularly impressed by Professor Tom Fleming, who teaches astronomy at the University of Arizona.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Sir Alexander Fleming is celebrated for his discovery of penicillin, which changed medicine forever.

  • The groundbreaking work of Fleming in bacteriology helped prevent countless bacterial infections.

  • Many people owe their lives to the medical advances made by Fleming and his research on antibiotics.

Synonyms

Alexander Fleming
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A Scottish scientist known for discovering penicillin

stresses the formal title and the major change in treating bacterial infections

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Fleming was originally a family name meaning a person 'from Flanders', a region now in Belgium. So Sir Alexander Fleming is remembered by that surname — he was the Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin and changed medicine.