| RefNo | EC/1943/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XV, 55; A02437 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Fleming, Sir Alexander: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Professor of Bacteriology, University of London, St Mary's Hospital Medical School. Distinguished for valuable contributions to bacteriology, immunology, and the theory of action of chemotherapeutic agents, including two major discoveries, lysozyme (1922) an important factor in local defence and penicillin (1929) a derivative of penicillium cultures possessing remarkable bacteriostatic properties. His suggestion that infections due to penicillin-sensitive bacteria might yield to treatment with penicillin has been quite recently borne out by other workers in trials both in animals and in man. Was early in field in demonstrating that the action of sulphonamides was essentially bacteriostatic and has long taught that effective employment of chemical agents in chemotherapy will depend on their possession of antibacterial powers vastly greater than those directed against the leucocytes. His work during the past 30 years includes also many useful contributions both to systematic bacteriology and to laboratory technique. |
| Proposers | Almroth E Wright; J C G Ledingham; James Walter McLeod; Charles J Martin; H Raistrick; C H Andrewes; Paul Fildes; Joseph A Arkwright; H W Florey |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2890 | Fleming; Sir; Alexander (1881 - 1955); bacteriologist | 1881 - 1955 |