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It is very rare to find a person who changes the way people view the world. Alexander Fleming was one such figure. What we know of today as penicillin, a cure for many infections, did not exist until 1928, when Fleming's brilliant and innovative mind discovered it.
As a young man, Fleming had a keen interest in the field of medicine. In 1906, he began working as a researcher at St. Mary's Hospital in London, England, under the guidance of Almroth Wright, a bacteriologist. During World War I, Fleming served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked with wounded soldiers. There, he realized that the liquid antiseptics used to treat wounds severely affected a person's ability to fight off bacterial infections. He believed that wounds should not be treated with antiseptics but rather kept clean and dry. However, his advice mostly went unheard.
In 1918, Fleming returned to St. Mary's as the assistant director of the St. Mary's Inoculation Department. Ten years later, in September 1928, he made a startling discovery related to the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause harmful infections in humans. Fleming had left the bacteria unattended in a petri dish and noticed that it had developed an unknown mold around it. When he studied the mold, he was surprised to find that it was a type of antibiotic, a substance that can kill bacteria or stop it from growing. He named this discovery penicillin and spread word of its clinical potential to treat bacterial infections. With the help of scientists Howard Florey and Ernst Chain from the University of Oxford, he managed to stabilize and purify penicillin for public use.
The discovery of penicillin revolutionized the medical world and turned Fleming into a hero. In 1943, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and received the knighthood one year later. In 1945, Fleming, Chain, and Florey were awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin and their contributions to the field of medicine.
In later years, Sir Alexander Fleming wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, chemotherapy, and immunology, which were published in medical and scientific journals all around the world. Fleming died in 1955 in London, but his name and contributions are celebrated to this day.