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Alexander Fleming Antibiotics "One sometimes finds what one is not looking for." Sir Alexander Fleming 1. Alexander Fleming biography 2. The discovery of Penicillin 3. Purification to a stable form and industrial scale production 4. How an antibiotic work 5. Antibiotic resistance 1. Alexander Fleming 1881 - 1955 Alexander Fleming was born in a lonely, rural part of Scotland as the seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm far away from the nearest house. The Fleming children spent much of their time in the streams, valleys, and moors of the countryside. "We unconsciously learned a great deal from nature," said Fleming. When their father died, his eldest son took over the running of the farm. Another brother Tom had studied medicine and was opening a practice in London. Soon, inspired by their brother, four Fleming brothers and a sister were living together in London. Alec, as Alexander was called, had moved to London when...

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