Question : Who discovered the first antibiotic?
Option 1: W Fleming
Option 2: C Waksman
Option 3: Louis Pasteur
Option 4: A Fleming
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9th Jan, 2024
Correct Answer: A Fleming
Solution : The correct option is - A Fleming.
The world's first widely successful antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered by Scottish doctor and microbiologist Alexander Fleming. Together with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, he shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.
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