Morganton is located in central Burke County in the Catawba River valley in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Interstate 40 passes through the southern part of the city, leading east 19 miles (31 km) to Hickory and west 54 miles (87 km) to Asheville.
Sir Alexander Fleming - Biographical. Questions and Answers on Sir Alexander Fleming. Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic.
* Alexander Fleming, a Scottish bacteriologist in London, discovered penicillin by mistake when he was trying to study staphylococci bacteria in 1928. He was running experiments with the bacteria in his laboratory at London's St. Mary's Hospital, and set a laboratory dish containing the bacteria near an open window.he first large-scale penicillin-production plant was constructed under the direction of Ernest Chain (1906-1979). In 1945, the year that penicillin became commercially available, the Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Chain, Florey, and Fleming for their work on penicillin.