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Who discovered Penicillin?

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SSC CGL 2017 (Tier 1) Previous Year Paper (16-Aug-2017) (Shift 1)
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Sir Alexander Fleming

Penicillin was discovered by Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 at St. Mary's Hospital, London, when he noticed that a contaminating Penicillium notatum mould inhibited Staphylococcus growth on a culture plate.

Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine; Bohr and Hertz were physicists.

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