Micro+Biologist



= Sir Alexander Fleming ( 1881 –1955) =

His best known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or medicine in 1945 with Howard wolter Floery and Ernst Boris Chain.** =Joseph Lister=
 * He was a Biologist who published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy.

Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds, which led to reduced post operative infections and made surgery safer for patients.**
 * Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM,FRS was an English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Poyal Infirmary.

=Peter D. Mitchell=


 * Peter D. Mitchell was born in Mitcham, Surrey on 29 September 1920. His parents were Christopher Gibbs Mitchell, a civil servent, and Kate Beatrice Dorothy (née) Taplin.He accepted a research post in the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge, in 1942, and received the degree of Ph.D ly 1951 for work on the mode of action of penicillin was invited by Professor Michael** **Swann a biochemical research unit, called the Chemical Biology Unit, in the Department of Zoology, Edinburgh University to a Senior Lectureship in 1961, to a Readership in 1962, although ill health led to his resignation in 1963.**