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Birth
He worked as a medical microbiologist at St. Mary's Hospital in London until the beginning of the first world war. In this hospital he worked in the Department of inoculations, dedicated to the improvement and manufacturing of vaccines and serums or injections. Almorth Edward Wright, Secretary of the Department, aroused the interest of Fleming for new treatments for infections. -
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Alexander Fleming
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school
Hospital medical school St Mary -
introducing work
Fleming was initiated in the ancient Scottish Rite and accepted in 1909, in the lodge no. 2682 Santa María de Londres, and was exalted to the degree of master in the lodge Misericordi, also of London. -
work
He worked as a medical microbiologist at St. Mary's Hospital in London until the beginning of the first world war. In this hospital he worked in the Department of inoculations, dedicated to the improvement and manufacturing of vaccines and serums or injections. Almorth Edward Wright, Secretary of the Department, aroused the interest of Fleming for new treatments for infections. -
Awards
Fleming was a member of the Chelsea Arts Club , a private club for artists founded in 1891 at the suggestion of the painter James McNeil Whistler. It is said anecdotally that Fleming was admitted to the club after making " paintings with germs ", paintings consisting of brushing the canvas with pigmented bacteria, which were invisible while he painted but emerged with intense colors once grown after hatching the canvas . -
working in war
During the war he was a military doctor in the fronts of France and was impressed by the high mortality caused by shrapnel wounds infected -
nobels
Por sus descubrimientos, Fleming compartió el Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1945 junto a Ernst Boris Chain y Howard Walter Florey. -
died
Alexander Fleming died in London in 1955 of a heart attack. He was buried as a national hero in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral