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Fleming did not invent penicillin, he discovered it by accident when it ruined an experiment he was doing trying to culture bacteria. It took many others and the expediency of wartime emergency funding to invent the technologies needed to mass produce penicillin as a drug.
Many later antibiotics related to penicillin were later invented in labs, but penicillin is not anyone's invention as it is a natural substance made by a type of fungus.
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Discovered in 1928, born in 1881.
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∙ 13y agoWe don't actually know because he only found it when he got back from a holiday!
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How old was Alexander Fleming when he discovered panacilin?
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How old is Sir Alexander Fleming?
Sir Alexander Fleming was born on August 6, 1881 and died on March 11, 1955. Sir Alexander Fleming would have been 73 years old at the time of death or 133 years old today.
What age did Alexander Fleming die?
Alexander Fleming was 73 years old when he died on March 11, 1955 in London,England.
How old was Alexander Fleming when he died?
He died at 74 years old.
How old was Alexander Fleming when he got married?
Around his early 20's
Alexander Fleming's full name?
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What did sir Alexander discovered?
In 1928, Fleming was working on the staphylococcibacteria - the kind that cause boils and sore throats, when, whilst he was examining some old bacterial plates that he noticed a mould had grown on one of his cultures. He saw what he believed was unusual in that some of the colonies of staphylococci that should have been growing near the mould had disappeared. Fleming thought that the mould could be making something that was capable of destroying the bacteria. He did some more experiments and found that this was indeed the case. He cultured the mould by growing it in broth. The mould was later identified as Penicillium notatum which had produced what we now call penicillin.
How old was Sir Sandford Fleming at death?
Ian Fleming was 56 years old when he died on August 12, 1964. (birthdate May 28, 1908)
When did D. F. Fleming die?
He died of a heart attack on March 11, 1955, he was 74 years old. He was cremated.Sir Alexander Fleming died of a heart attack on 11 March 1955.
Why did it take so long for penicillin to be mass produced?
When Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 he thought it was wonderful but when he published his paper he found that it received very little interest and eventually Fleming went back to his previous research. In 1939 Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, two scientists working in Oxford read about Fleming's research and they set up a team of specialists to develop penicillin. In 1940 they tested on mice and in 1941 on humans. Florey was determined to develop it but it could not have been synthesised by chemicals. The mould had to be cultured on a broth and exposed to air but the team could not find a suitable "base". They had to use milk churns, bed pans etc. No factories had the technology to produce penicillin partly because they were damaged because of the war or they were working at full capacity to produce other drugs for the war. In June 1941 Florey and another member of his team went to America to see if the drug companies there would fund their research. At first they were unsuccessful but when the USA entered the war in December 1941 the US government was prepared to fund the mass production on penicillin. They knew many soldiers were likely to die from infection rather then from injuries, so the mass-production of penicillin would save many lives. Florey had discovered that drying the mould at low temperatures was the best method of purifying penicillin. Chemists at the medical company Pfizer, in NY, used an old ice-cream freezer to develop a method of freeze dying that was eventually used for large scale production in 1944 and was given to allied troops all over Europe.
How old is Justin Fleming?
Justin Fleming is 64 years old (birthdate: January 3, 1953).
How old is Stephen Fleming?
Stephen Fleming is 44 years old (birthdate: April 1, 1973).
