Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming

male, deceased (1955)
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology,...
Ernst Boris Chain

Ernst Boris Chain

male, deceased (1979)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (June 19, 1906 - August 12, 1979) was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for...
Norman Heatley

Norman Heatley

male, deceased (2004)
Norman George Heatley (January 10, 1911 - January 5, 2004) was a member of the team of Oxford scientists who developed penicillin. He was born in...
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

female, deceased (1994)
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, OM, FRS (12 May 1910 - 29 July 1994) was a British founder of protein crystallography. She pioneered the technique...

Kevin Brown

male, 48 years old
Kevin Brown (b. 1961) has been Trust Archivist and Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Curator at St Mary's NHS Trust since 1989, having set up the...
Ernest Duchesne

Ernest Duchesne

male, deceased (1912)
Ernest Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery thirty-two years before Alexander...
Almroth Wright

Almroth Wright

male, deceased (1947)
Sir Almroth Edward Wright (1861-1947) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. He is best known for advancing vaccination through the use of...

Albert Alexander

male, deceased (1941)
Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, the first patient to be treated with penicillin. Albert Alexander was a constable in the police force of the...
John Cornforth

John Cornforth

male, 92 years old
Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth FRS (born 7 September 1917), is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the...
Robert W. Holley

Robert W. Holley

male, deceased (1993)
Dr Robert W. Holley (January 28, 1922 - February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in...