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| Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of
this mold by accident. In his 1945 Nobel
Prize acceptance speech, Alexander Fleming noted the danger of
resistance: "It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to
penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not
sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in
the body. Scottish researcher Alexander Fleming didn't need to develop a
strategy to discover penicillin. |
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Alexander Fleming - Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)