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 ...

T ucked away in a dusty corner of St. Mary’s Hospital in London lies a tiny, one-room museum dedicated to one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine: a mold that changed the ...

One of the original samples of Alexander Fleming’s penicillin mold. | Bonhams (mold), ... Fleming was famous for absentmindedly leaving out Petri dishes filled with mold for weeks at a time.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The mural, designed by Glasgow-based artist Rogue One, is not the first tribute to Fleming in Darvel. He was born at Lochfield Farm in August 1881, about four miles (6.4km), from the town's centre ...

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 ...