Awards & Winners

Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

Awards by Alexander Fleming

Check all the awards nominated and won by Alexander Fleming.

1945


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.)