Alexander Fleming vs Alexander Graham Bell
Two music prodigies, compared on what is actually documented: field, era, country and record. No invented numbers.
The record, side by side
| Alexander Fleming | Alexander Graham Bell | |
| Field | Music | Music |
| Sub-field | Musician | Electronic |
| Born | 1881 | 1847 |
| Died | 1955 | 1922 |
| Country of birth | SCT | SCT |
| Star sign | Leo | - |
Who they are
Alexander Fleming
In September 1928, a Scottish bacteriologist returned from his summer holiday to a cluttered laboratory at St Mary's Hospital in London, and noticed something unusual on a petri dish he had left behind. A mould had contaminated one of his cultures of Staphylococcus bacteria — and around the mould, the bacteria were dead. Alexander Fleming did not immediately grasp that he had just made the most important medical discovery of the twentieth century. But he was curious enough to look more carefully, and careful enough not to throw the dish away. That decision would eventually…
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, into a family professionally and personally obsessed with the human voice. His grandfather Alexander Bell was a noted speech teacher and actor. His father Melville Bell developed a system called Visible Speech — a phonetic alphabet for teaching deaf people to speak, in which symbols represented the physical positions of the mouth, throat, and tongue during sound production. His mother Eliza Grace Symonds Bell was herself almost completely deaf, and Bell learned from childhood to speak very close to her skull so she…
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What they share
- Both are held here under Music.
- Both born in SCT.
- Their lifetimes overlap.
Where they part
- 34 years separate their births (1881 and 1847).
Questions people ask
- Who came first, Alexander Fleming or Alexander Graham Bell?
- Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Fleming was born in 1881, Alexander Graham Bell in 1847.
- What field is each of them in?
- Alexander Fleming is filed under Music (Musician). Alexander Graham Bell is filed under Music (Electronic).
- Were they contemporaries?
- Yes - their lifetimes overlap.