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Sir Alexander Fleming

(“Creator of Antibiotics”)
-(6 August 1881 – 11 March
1955) was a Scottish
biologist, physician,
microbiologist, and
pharmacologist.
-His best-known discoveries
are the enzyme lysozyme in
1923 and the world's first
antibiotic substance
benzylpenicillin (Penicillin
G) from the mould
Penicillium notatum in 1928.
Selman Abraham Waksman
(“Father of Antibiotics”)
- And his research teams
discovered antibiotics
made by soil-dwelling
bacteria the word
antibiotic was coined
by Waksman.
- One of the antibiotics
made by these bacteria
was streptomycin, the
first effective treatment
for tuberculosis.
“ANTIBIOTICS”

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