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 ...

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 ...