Well that's exactly what happened on 28 September 1928, when Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, found a substance called penicillin that transformed the history of medicine.

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...

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In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the ...

Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton made boatloads of money after leaving office—yet still nowhere near as much as the richest president in American history.

But it is necessary to examine those elements of human nature which have a direct bearing upon human conduct. William Fleming (1871), A Manual of Moral Philosophy: With Quotations and References for ...

Most Americans know Alexander Graham Bell as an inventor of the telephone. But few know that the central interest of his life was education for deaf children or that he was one of the strongest ...

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Alexander has previously written several political blogs focusing on issues ranging from free speech online to cancel culture. He came from a background of writing and interviewing political ...

But the rivalry between Minnesota wide receiver Justin Jefferson and Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander has developed into one of the NFL’s best. In just more than four seasons ...