In other fields of endeavour, Sir Alexander Fleming, born in Ayrshire in 1881, was the Scot who discovered the antibiotic known as penicillin. Having studied as a biologist and pharmacologist he was the first to isolate penicillin from a fungus.
Two other scientists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, were able to develop a method of purifying the antibiotic, and for this important work all three shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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