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. The Fleming children ...
On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...
A dried sample of the original Penicillium mold that Fleming discovered in 1928. Cade Martin For many people, a bloom of mold symbolizes failure. But this small medallion of mold, its two dots of ...