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Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, discovered antibiotics

other people perfected his study on penicillin

also some people would say that Selman A. Waksman invented it. 1943 American microbiologist Selman A. Waksman (1888-1973) discovered a fungus that produced a powerful antibiotic substance. He named it streptomycin. This was used as medecin and saved many lives

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Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist, discovered antibiotics

other people perfected his study on penicillin

also some people would say that Selman A. Waksman invented it. 1943 American microbiologist Selman A. Waksman (1888-1973) discovered a fungus that produced a powerful antibiotic substance. He named it streptomycin. This was used as medecin and saved many lives

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The American microbiologist Selman Waksman invented the first antibiotic which helped with tb, typhoid, bubonic plauge and bacteria meningitis but the antibiotic was unsafe.

The first safe antibiotics were invented in 1945 by British scientists Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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