Science Discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming

On 6th August 1881 a man was born. It was discovered in 1928. He made a very special medicine called penicillin. Penicillin is a certain collection of antibiotics. It came from a type of fungi called penicillin fungi. It is used to prevent bacteria infections. Penicillin was one of the first type of antibiotics used for major infections and diseases. Any medication with cillin at the end of it has some kind of penicillin in it, for example phenoxymethylpenicillin and ampicillin. Unfortunately he died in 11 March 1955.