Significant Scots - Sir Alexander Fleming

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 spent much of their of time ranging through the streams, valleys, and moors of the countryside. "We unconsciously learned a great deal from nature," said Fleming. He discovered Penicillin.

The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming
Discoverer of Penicillan by André Mourois (1956)

CONTENTS

Introduction
Foreword
Chapter I - In the beginning was Scotland
Chapter II - The twists in the path
Chapter III - The nature of Wright
Chapter IV - Fleming and Wright
Chapter V - The Prentice Years
Chapter VI - The War of 1914-18
Chapter VII - Children and men
Chapter VIII - First hope: the Lysozyme
Chapter IX - The Mould Juice
Chapter X - Penicillin
Chapter XI - A new magic bullet: the sulphonamides
Chapter XII - The Oxford team
Chapter XIII - War and glory
Chapter XIV - Sir Alexander Fleming
Chapter XV - The Nobel Prize
Chapter XVI - Envoy extraordinary
Chapter XVII - The silences of professor Fleming
Chapter XVIII - The Delphic Oracle
Chapter XIX - Too short a happiness
Epilogue
Bibliography and Pictures