Alexander Fleming August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955

Alexander Fleming August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955
Penicillin (penicillin)


Sir Alexander Fleming was the man known as the discoverer of penicillin (an antibiotic to fight bacteria).

Born in Lochfield farm near Darvel, Scotland. He was the third of four brothers and had four half-brothers again.

Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and then for two years he went to Kilmarnock Academy. After working in the office delivery service for four years, Fleming's 20-year-old when it inherited some property from his uncle. Fleming's brother, who was a doctor suggested that his younger brother followed his career, so that in 1901 Alexander Fleming then enrolled at St. Hospital. Mary's, London. He then got a special qualification for the 1906 school year with an option to be a surgeon.

Alexander Fleming himself known because he is an expert researcher who is very clever, but sloppy and laboratory itself often looks messy. In 1928, after returning from a long holiday, Fleming will be remembered dipiringan bacteria in the laboratory forgot to keep well, and has been contaminated with a kind of fungus. Some laboratory dish containing the bacteria in the waste, but then Fleming noticed that bacteria growth on the areas contaminated by the fungus becomes blocked. Fleming then took samples of the mushroom samples and examined it, he discovered that the mushrooms are from the genus Penicillium. This is why the drug called penicillin or penicillin (Indonesia).

Fleming's discovery in September 1928 marked a new century in a world of modern antibiotics. Fleming also found that the bacteria themselves can develop resistance and resistance to penicillin when penicillin is used as an antibiotic too little and used in a short period of time.

Because penicillin is a very difficult time to be developed, Fleming desperate to develop these antibiotics. Soon after Fleming penicillin no longer develop, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain took over the development and conduct large-scale production with a grant from the U.S. and British governments.

Norman Heatley suggested that by transferring the active ingredient of penicillin back into water and change its acid levels, will be sufficient to produce drugs that can be used to experiment on animals.

Arise one opinion that "Without Fleming, no Chain, without Chain, no Florey, without Florey, no Heatley, without Heatley, no penicillin."