noun
Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
• Syn: ↑Fleming, ↑Sir Alexander Fleming
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑bacteriologist
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(1881–1955) a Scottish scientist who became well known for discovering ↑penicillin, the first ↑antibiotic that successfully killed bacteria and cured infections. He was made a ↑knight in 1944, and in 1945 shared the ↑Nobel Prize for medicine with two ↑colleagues who helped him to develop the use of ↑penicillin.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.