Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
United KingdomSummary
Updated 2026-05-29
Scottish microbiologist who stumbled onto penicillin in 1928 when a mold contaminated his lab dish—and accidentally launched the antibiotic era. Shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for a discovery that fundamentally rewired medicine.
Biography
About
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". This was the first antibiotic substance discovered. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease".
Profile
Specialty
Not enough public signals yet. Connect a profile, add a source, or claim this profile to populate this section.
Profile
Credentials
Not enough public signals yet. Connect a profile, add a source, or claim this profile to populate this section.
Profile
Tags & topics
Profile
Platforms
No platforms connected yet.
Profile
Timeline
No timeline events yet. Claim the profile to add milestones.
Profile
Trend
Fame score, last 90 days
Profile
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Fame
Falling32.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Historical22.7
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
Global rank
#210
Country rank
#198
Category rank
#80
Profile
Sources
- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
Discover
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
.jpg)
_(crop).jpg)
%2C_por_Domenico_Fetti.jpg)
