IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1955: Alexander Fleming Dies

International Herald Tribune | March 12, 2005 | Copyright

International Herald Tribune
03-12-2005
LONDON: Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, died suddenly today [March 11] of a heart attack. He collapsed shortly after having breakfast in bed at his Chelsea home. Lady Fleming, a Greek war heroine and scientist, was at his side when he died. It was she who nursed him through pneumonia in 1953 penicillin was credited with helping greatly toward his recovery. World honors, including the Nobel Prize for medicine and a British knighthood, showered down on the Scotsman, but he never made any money from his discovery. He was experimenting with an antiseptic ...

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