Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house.

More Vantage Point:Historic workplace change underway Case in point. On Sept. 3, 1928, Fleming spotted something highly unusual in a petri dish in his lab. In a famous photo, there is on one side ...

But a forensic-style investigation of the lab in which Alexander Fleming discovered the world-famous fungus suggests the Nobel prizewinner's find has been misunderstood for 80 years.

Sir Alexander Fleming describes his discovery of penicillin. While competing in a game show called ‘The greatest science investigator of all time’, famous scientists from history describe ...

The bacteriologist Alexander Fleming is recalled as one of the brightest minds in the history of science. TIME once called him “a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy ...

Alexander Fleming was famous for discovering penicillin Credit: ITV News. Born in 1881 in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming revolutionised the world of medicine when he accidentally discovered ...

In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a British bacteriologist, escaped the London smog to take a family vacation in Suffolk. When he got back to his lab, he discovered he had forgotten to sterilize his ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house.

Sir Alexander Fleming describes his discovery of penicillin. While competing in a game show called ‘The greatest science investigator of all time’, famous scientists from history describe ...