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.
Originally Englishman Alexander Fleming noticed the activity of penicillin when it had accidentally contaminated a culture he was working on. He made a note of it and did no further work with it. Howard florey an Australian and Ernst Chain got wind of Flemings discovery and went to work to isolate penicillin.