Who discovered the first antibiotic?

Q. Who discovered the first antibiotic?
Answer: A Fleming
Notes: Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the world’s first antibiotic— benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G)—from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928. For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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