Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold with antibacterial properties was only the first serendipitous event on the long road to penicillin as a life-saving drug. Hannah joined The Scientist as ...

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be ...

Just over 110 years ago, the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time. Just over 45 years ago, people walked on the moon. It took just over 60 years for us to go from the first powered ...

On this show it’s the turn of Sir Alexander Fleming, who describes how in 1928 he discovered penicillin, which kills some bacteria responsible for serious human infections. The most important ...

Science is littered with serendipitous findings — such as Alexander Fleming’s chance observation that a mould killed the bacteria he was culturing, which led to the discovery of antibiotics.

Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming children ...