Alexander Fleming Death Anniversary

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Alexander Fleming died on 11 March, 1955

Scottish biologist famous for discovering the antibiotic Penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Fleming also discovered the important enzyme, lysozyme.