Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #47: Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He is chiefly know for the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum. Fleming also made the crucial discovery that bacteria develop antibiotic resistance whenever too little antibotic is used or when it is used for too short a period. Penicillin has saved perhaps as many as 200 million lives worldwide and continues to save lives today. Fleming’s discovery of useful antibiotics significantly created and made possible modern medicine. Go to #48: Tesla Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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