Q. Who discovered Penicillin in 1928?
Solution:
- Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish 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.
- For which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
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