Alexander Fleming served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War One which took place from 1914-1918.. He was involved in treating wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Doctors weren't ...

Around a decade after the Scottish microbiologist’s chance discovery, a University of Oxford team picked up Fleming’s work on penicillin, just as Europe was on the brink of another world war.

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During World War II, ... "Culture of / Penicillium notatum / Alexander Fleming." Credit Line Sir Alexander Fleming date made mid-1940's to 1953 ID Number MG.M-06668 catalog number M-06668 accession ...

In his lifetime, Fleming realized that his discovery could be endangered by antibiotic resistance and warned of the dangers in his Nobel lecture in 1945. "The time may come when penicillin can be ...