Alexander Fleming

<p>Joel Elkes was taught microbiology by Fleming, the pharmaceutical journal reports</p>

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<div>"In 1931, he left Kovno for London with a letter of recommendation from the British Ambassador to Lithuania, a friend of his father’s, to study medicine at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. There he found himself “extraordinarily fortunate”, taught bacteriology by Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, and medicine by Charles Wilson — later Lord Moran, physician to Sir Winston Churchill. Attending a meeting of the British Physiological Society, demonstrating the firing of neurons “made me determined to get into the nervous system come what may[3]”.</div>

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<div>https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/opinion/obituary/joel-elkes-19132015/20200438.article?firstPass=false</div>