Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) makes a speech in the auditorium of the University of Rome in 1945 on the occasion of his reception of an honorary doctorate. Sir Alexander Fleming is the discoverer of the active substance of penicillin, and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 together with Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey, for the development of antibiotic. Date: October 1945 Location: Italy, Rome Keywords: doctors, honorary doctorates, physiologists, physiologists, professors, Nobel Prize winners Personal name: Fleming Sir Alexander

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