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Significant Scots
Sir Alexander Fleming


Alexander Fleming was born in a remote, rural part of Scotland. The seventh of eight siblings and half-siblings, his family worked an 800-acre farm a mile from the nearest house. The Fleming children spent much of their of time ranging through the streams, valleys, and moors of the countryside. "We unconsciously learned a great deal from nature," said Fleming. He discovered Penicillin.

The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming
Discoverer of Penicillan by André Mourois (1956)

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