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Alexander Fleming
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Noun1.Alexander Fleming - Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)Alexander Fleming - Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)


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Holiday making celebrities included actors Errol Flyn, Marlon Brando and Buster Keaton, historical figures Winston Churchill, Alexander Flemming, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, and even various Italian-American gangsters such as Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello.
Legendary New York City restaurateur TOOTS SHOR to SIR ALEXANDER FLEMMING, discoverer of penicillin, upon seeing a jockey who had finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby coming into his restaurant: "Excuse me, AI, somebody important just came through the door and I gotta say hello to him.
2 Sir Alexander Flemming, Dr Dennis Gabor and Dr Narinder Singh Kapany respectively 3 2008 Research Assessment Exercise results
 
 
 
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