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Sir Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming
British bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming won the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of penicillin in 1928. He shared the prize with pathologist Howard Florey and chemist Ernst Chain, who had also made significant contributions to penicillin's development.
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