Encyclopaedia Britannica's biography of Alexander Fleming, covering his 1928 discovery of penicillin and his shared 1945 Nobel Prize.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Fleming
Source Typebiography
Reliability Tier2
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