Alexander Fleming: an invitation to Seville and Cordoba:
The Scottish doctor who discovered penicillin visited Spain in 1948, three years after he won the Nobel ...
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Alexander Fleming Honored in Seville and Córdoba in 1948The penicillin discoverer visited Spain three years after winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Seville named a street after him.
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- Fleming was born in Ayrshire on 6 August 1881 and accidentally discovered penicillin on a contaminated Staphylococcus culture plate in 1928.
- After an invitation from city hall, Fleming stayed in Seville with his wife; he became an honorary guest, and a street was named after him.
- In Seville, he received the Royal Academy of Sciences’ gold medal and visited hospitals, the cathedral and Royal Alcázar.
- On 9 June, a crowd gathered near Córdoba’s Roman Bridge; city hall named Fleming an honorary guest.
made very difficult by the constant cheers of the crowd surrounding him, who enjoyed the privilege of seeing him up close, applauding and cheering him incessantly,— ABC de Córdoba, in an article marking the 75th anniversary of Fleming's visit (2023)
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