Alexander Fleming

(August 6, 1881 - March 11, 1955)

(Penicillin)

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Sir Alexander Fleming was the man known as the inventor of penicillin (an antibiotic to fight bacteria).

Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and then for two years he went to Kilmarnock Academy. After working in an office delivery service for four years, Fleming who was 20 years old then inherited some property from his uncle.Fleming's brother, who was a doctor suggested that his younger brother following in the footsteps of his career, so that in 1901 Alexander Fleming then enrolled at St.Mary's, London. He then obtain a special qualification for the school in 1906 with an option to be a surgeon.

Alexander Fleming himself famous because she is an expert researcher who is very clever, but sloppy and the lab itself often looks messy. By 1928, after returning from a long holiday, Fleming will afterthought bacteria laboratory dipiringan forget stored carefully, and have been contaminated with a fungus. Some laboratory dish containing the bacteria in the waste, but then Fleming noticed that the growth of bacteria in the contaminated by the fungus becomes obstructed. Fleming then took samples of the fungal sample and examining it, he found that the fungus is from the genus Penicillium. This is why drugs called penicillin or penicillin (Indonesia).

Fleming's discovery in September 1928 marked a new century in the world of modern antibiotics. Fleming also found that the bacteria themselves can develop resistance and resistance to penicillin when penicillin is used as an antibiotic too little and used in a short period of time.

Since that time penicillin is very difficult to develop, Fleming desperate to develop these antibiotics. Soon after Fleming was no longer developing penicillin, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain took over the development and conduct large-scale production with a grant from the American and British governments.

Norman Heatley suggested that by transferring the active ingredient of penicillin back into water and alter its acid level, will be sufficient to produce drugs that can be used to experiment on animals.

Be an opinion that "Without Fleming, no Chain, no chain, no Florey, without Florey, no Heatley, without Heatley, no penicillin."

On March 11, 1955 Fleming died at the age of 73 years of a heart attack. However, the magic bullet that he had found so far remained potent for the medical community worldwide. According to research, penicillin can be used clinically for the treatment of diphtheria, anthrax, gonorrhea, syphilis even!.