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Alexander Fleming

Data de nascimento: 6. Agosto 1881
Data de falecimento: 11. Março 1955
Outros nomes: Alexander Sir Fleming

Alexander Fleming foi um biólogo, botânico, médico, microbiólogo e farmacologista britânico. Autor de diversos trabalhos sobre bacteriologia, imunologia e quimioterapia, notabilizou-se como o descobridor da proteína antimicrobiana lisozima, em 1923, e da penicilina, obtida a partir do fungo Penicillium notatum, em 1928, pela qual foi laureado Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina em 1945, juntamente com Howard Florey e Ernst Boris Chain.

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„A penicilina cura os homens, mas é o vinho que os torna felizes.“

— Alexander Fleming

Penicillin may cure human beings, but it is wine that makes them happy
Alexander Fleming citado em The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine - página 82, Por Jeff Smith, Publicado por Morrow, 1986, ISBN 0688058523, 9780688058524, 447 páginas

De homens, Vinho

„When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, … But I guess that was exactly what I did.“

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— Alexander Fleming

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„I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this—never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be—usually is, in fact—a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.“

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— Alexander Fleming

Lecture at Harvard University. Quoted in Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell, Molecular Cloning (2001), Vol. 1, 153.
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„How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.“

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— Alexander Fleming

Reported in Dennis V. Parke, "Clinical Pharmacokinetics in Drug Safety Evaluation," in ATLA: Alternatives To Laboratory Animals https://books.google.it/books?id=WMZNAQAAIAAJ, vol. 22, no. 3, May/June 1994, p. 208.
The context is: "the present approach to drug safety evaluation, based on experimental animal studies, is known to be of questionable scientific veracity and has never been satisfactorily validated as an appropriate surrogate system for man. My former teacher, Sir Alexander Fleming, in his late years, chided me, saying …"