Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming

male, deceased (1955)
Army Officer, buried at St Paul's Cathedral, microbiologist, death by myocardial infarction, British, Nobel Laureate…antibiotic
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology,...
Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich

male, deceased (1915)
scientist, death by stroke, German native of Silesia, chemotherapy, Nobel Laureate, Jewish person…antibiotic
Paul Ehrlich (March 14, 1854 - August 20, 1915) was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is noted for his...
Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman

male, deceased (1973)
Jewish, biochemistry, decomposition, American, microbiology, antibiotic
Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July 1888 - 16 August 1973) was an Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic...
Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk

male, deceased (1964)
Carl von Ossietzky, anti-nazi, refusal of Nobel Prize, University of Münster, bacteria, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…antibiotic
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (October 30, 1895 - April 24, 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist and Nobel laureate. Domagk was born in...

Albert Schatz

male, deceased (2005)
Pancreatic cancer death, streptomycin, Actinobacteria, Biologist, Tuberculosis, Rutgers…antibiotic
Albert Schatz (2 February, 1920 - 17 January, 2005) was a scientist who was eventually named the co-discoverer of streptomycin, an antibiotic...
Ernest Duchesne

Ernest Duchesne

male, deceased (1912)
French, physician, penicillin, penicillium, escherichia coli, bacterium…antibiotic
Ernest Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery thirty-two years before Alexander...
Rachel Fuller Brown

Rachel Fuller Brown

female, deceased (1980)
Mount Holyoke College alumni, antibiotic, mount holyoke college, Chemist, National Inventors Hall of Fame, American
Rachel Fuller Brown (November 23, 1898 - January 14, 1980) was an American scientist. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She received her...
George W. Merck

George W. Merck

male, deceased (1957)
sulfas, World War I, Llewellyn Park, sulfa drug, Time Magazine, Merck…antibiotic
George W. Merck (1894 - 1957), the son of George Merck, was an American scientist and president of Merck & Co.. Raised in Llewellyn Park, New...
Robert Austrian

Robert Austrian

male, deceased (2007)
University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, vaccine, physician, American…antibiotic
Robert Austrian (April 12 1916 - March 25 2007)an American infectious diseases physician. Robert Austrian was along with Maxwell Finland, one of...

Stanley Norman Cohen

male
Stanford University faculty, bacteria, National Medal of Science, National Medal of Science recipient, From Perth Amboy, New Jersey, National Institutes of Health…antibiotic
Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist. Originally from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Cohen is a graduate of Rutgers University, and received...