Person you admire

Alexander Fleming 

One of the most important discovery was made by this scientific called Alexander Fleming.  

He was born on 6 August 1881 and died on 11 September 1955. He was bacteriologist and British Nobel Prize, famous for the discovery of penicillin.

 Born near Darvel, Ayr (now part of Strathclyde), Scotland, he trained at the St. Mary's School of Medicine, University Hospital of London, where he worked as a professor of bacteriology from 1928 to 1948. 

Fleming developed important research in the fields of bacteriology, chemotherapy and immunology. In 1922 he discovered lysozyme, an antiseptic present in tears, bodily secretions, albumin and certain plants. The discovery of penicillin happened accidentally in 1928 while his research on influenza. In 1945 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with British scientists Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain for their contributions to the development of penicillin.

For all these facts, Fleming is one of the most inspired scientists in my life because many people were saved from death thanks to his discovery, and he made the first step towards new medicine, starting the area of antibiotics, in which many others later researchers contributed new antibiotics, such as streptomycin used to treat tuberculosis, saving millions of lives.