他是誰?
He grew up in Lochfield, East Ayrshire(艾爾郡的洛克菲德), Scotland.
His parents were local farmers.
With his childhood in the rural countryside, he developed a habit of observing and thinking.
He received formal education at Louden Moor School, Darvel School and Kilmarnock Academy. After that, he went to London where he worked as a clerk in a shopping office to earn a living.
The inheritance from his uncle allowed him to pursue his medical studies at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School.
Originally, he had intended to become a surgeon, but he changed his mind to study bacteriology under the inspiration of one influential bacteriologist, who offered a revolutionary idea regarding to vaccine therapy.
He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I and kept studying wound infections throughout his service in the military.
Due to the research and findings In the makeshift hospital, he found that the way of cleaning wounds with saline solution was more effective than the use of antiseptics(消毒劑) which could kill germs and harmful bacteria and diminish the immunity agent of soldiers at the same time.
One day, observing a culture plate of bacteria which was contaminated by a mold in his laboratory, he accidentally discovered that the growth of the bacteria surrounding the mold had been stopped.
This is the well-known event that he found an antibiotic, penicillin, purely by chance.
Do you have any idea who he is?
If you can’t figure out his name, here the answer is
亞歷山大?弗萊明(alexander fleming )
