Alexander Ogston
(1844-1929)

surgeon

Died aged c. 85

Sir Alexander Ogston KCVO MD CM LLD (19 April 1844 – 1 February 1929) was a British surgeon, famous for his discovery of Staphylococcus.

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Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Sir Alexander Ogston (1844-1929) Professor of Surgery, surgical innovator and distinguished military surgeon lived in a house on this site from 1870 to 1929. In 1881 Ogston discovered the Staphylococcus organism in a laboratory he constructed in his garden.

252 Union Street, Aberdeen, United Kingdom where they lived