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1881
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Aexander Fleming is born at Lochfield, in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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1886
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Fleming attends the local primary school, Lodoun Moor.
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1891
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Fleming moves on to school at Darvel.
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1893
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Fleming attends Kilmarnrock Academy.
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1895
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Fleming leaves Scotland to live with his older half brother Tom in London.
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1897
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He attends Regent Street Polytechnic Shool. Fleming takes an office job a the America Line shippin offices.
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1899
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Outbreak of the Boer War in South Africa.
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1901
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Flenming studies for medical school entrance exams at London College of Preceptorstors, and enters St. Mary's Hospital
Medical School as a medical student.
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1903
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Flemings mother moves to London; he joins her and his brothers John and Robert to live in Ealing, West London.
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1906
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Fleming becomes a qualified doctor and joins the Inoculation Departmet of St. Mary's Hospital as a junior assistant.
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1909
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Fleming is elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS). Paul Ehrlich discovers "magic bullet" drug called
606. or Salvarsan.
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1914
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Outbreak of World War 1. Fleming works with an Army medical unit.
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1915
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Fleming marries Sally McElroy (also called Sarah and Sareen).
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1918
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World War 1 ends.
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1919
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Fleming become assistant director of the Inoculation Department.
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1924
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Son Robert is born.
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1928
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Fleming becomes professor of bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School; also discovers penicillin.
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1929
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Fleming presents penicillin studies to Medical Reasearch Club.
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1936
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Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain begin to work together to purify penicillin.
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1940
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Florey and Chain purify penicillin by vacuum freeze-drying. Penicillin is first tested on animals.
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1941
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Human tests of penicillin begin.
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1942
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Success of penicllin brings world recognition for Fleming.
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1943
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Penicillin goes into mass production in the United States.
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1944
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Fleming is Knighted as Sir Alexander Fleming; recieives several medals, honors, and memberships.
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1945
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World War 2 ends.
Fleming receives many more honors, including sharing the Nobelprie with Florey and Chain.
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