Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Alexander Fleming across 5 places, from 1881 to 1955.
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Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Alexander Fleming was documented, and when
6 August 1881exact date
Darvelattested“Born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming was the third of four children of farmer Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton, the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
6 August 1881exact date
Ayrshireattested“Born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland, Alexander Fleming was the third of four children of farmer Hugh Fleming and Grace Stirling Morton, the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1921 to 1955period
Barton Millsattested“Why should it become a profit-making monopoly of manufacturers in another country?From 1921 until his death in 1955, Fleming owned a country home named "The Dhoon" in Barton Mills, Suffolk.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
3 September 1928exact date
Suffolkattested“On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent a holiday with his family at Suffolk.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
11 March 1955exact date
Londonattested“On 11 March 1955, Fleming died at his home in London of a heart attack.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
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1900 to 1914period
Londonmentioned“Fleming, who was a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force from 1900 to 1914, had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1903year
St Mary's Hospital Medical Schoolmentioned“In 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington, now part of Imperial College London.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1918 to 1928period
St Mary's Hospital, Londonmentioned“In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
18 October 1932exact date
Royal Societymentioned“The importance of lysozyme was not recognised, and Fleming was well aware of this, in his presidential address at the Royal Society of Medicine meeting on 18 October 1932, he said:I choose lysozyme as the subject for this address for two…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1941year
Oxfordmentioned“Fleming bore these disappointments stoically, but they did not alter his views or deter him from continuing his investigation of penicillin.In 1941, the British Medical Journal reported that "[Penicillin] does not appear to have been con…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
August 1942month
St Mary's Hospital, Londonmentioned“In August 1942, Harry Lambert (an associate of Fleming's brother Robert) was admitted to St Mary's Hospital due to a life-threatening infection of the nervous system (streptococcal meningitis).”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1943year
Carthagementioned“Churchill was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides, since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1943year
Tunisiamentioned“Churchill was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides, since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
1944year
United Statesmentioned“Moyer patenting the method of penicillin production in the United States in 1944, he was furious, and commented:I found penicillin and have given it free for the benefit of humanity.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming
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