Sir Alexander Fleming died a popular hero in 1955. And though millions have benefited from his discovery over the years, penicillin and other antibiotics are now losing much of their effectiveness ...

Penicillin was discovered in London in September of 1928. As the story goes, Dr. Alexander Fleming, ... In the summer of 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II, ...

It was Alexander Fleming, ... By D-day 1944, Lax writes, U.S. penicillin production had reached 100 billion units per month, enough to treat 40,000 war-wounded and civilian patients ...

Alexander Fleming 1881 - 1955. ... During the course of the war, Fleming made many innovations in treatment of the wounded, but this was soon overshadowed by the work he did afterwards.

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 ...

Alexander Fleming studies mold cultures in his lab at the Wright Fleming Institute in London. ... The poisoning of troops with mustard gas during World War I led to the production of chemotherapy.

The “marvelous mold that saves lives,” as TIME put it, was first discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, but more than a decade would pass before the first American patient was treated with ...

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.