Fleming’s widow dies
NZPA-Reuter Athens Amalia Fleming, widow of the British discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming, and a leading socialist and human rights campaigner, has died of a heart attack. She was 73.
Lady Fleming had been under treatment for a kidney ailment and diabetes. In the late 19605, she was prominent in resisting the Greek Right-wing military junta, which
ruled from 1967 to 1974. She had also taken part in the struggle against Nazi occupation. From 1977 until she died she was a socialist member of Greece’s Parliament.
She was bom in Istanbul in 1912 and qualified as a doctor at Athens University. She met her husband in London while doing post-graduate studies at his WrightFleming Institute.
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