The famous bacteriologist from around the world who discovered penicillin was awarded the Nobel Prize. The press predicted that this discovery would "change the course of history" and called Fleming "a scientist who conquered death," putting him among the one hundred most important people of the twentieth century.
But how easy was the path of the "unruffled Scot" to the great discovery? They didn’t believe him, and his brilliant scientific insights were dismissed as charlatanism.
So what helped the scientist endure all the tests? Andre Maurois tells about the life and struggle of Alexander Fleming in this astonishing biographical novel.