Fleming’s mould in a petri dish
Fleming’s discovery of penicillin was so important to medical science that he was knighted by King George VI in 1944.
The following year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain.
In 1946 he was made a Freeman of Darvel.
He died in 1955 and his ashes were interred in St Paul’s Cathedral in London.