Sir
Alexander
(Alec)
Fleming
Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Brother of
Thomas Fleming [half], Jane (Fleming) Lyon [half], Hugh Fleming [half], Mary Fleming [half], Mary (Fleming) Douglas [half], Grace Steel Fleming, John Fleming and Robert James Fleming
Husband of
Sarah Marion (McElroy) Fleming
— married
23 Dec 1915 (to 1949) in London, England, United Kingdom
Husband of
Amalia (Koutsouri) Fleming
— married
9 Apr 1953 [location unknown]
Father of
[private son (1920s - unknown)]
Died
at age 73
in London, England, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Sep 2014
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Biography
Alec Fleming is Notable.
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS(Eng) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland. [1] He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming (1816–1888) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton (1848–1928),[2] the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage. He was 59 at the time of his second marriage, and died when Alexander (known as Alec) was seven.
Sources
- ↑ National Records of Scotland, 1881 Births, 603/104
- ↑ National Records of Scotland, 1876 Marriages, 621/9
- The Britannica Guide to The 100 Most Influential Scientists (2007), pp. 261-262.
- Wikipedia:Alexander_Fleming
- Sir Alexander Fleming on Find A Grave: Memorial #6161 Retrieved 29 sep 2016.
- nobelprize.org Fleming bio
- This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q37064, en:Wikipedia
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alec by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alec:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alec by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alec:
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