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Alexander Flemming stumbled onto it accidentally in Indonesia and noted it, then an Australian Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed it to a point where it became a useful material its mass production was then developed by the US defense department in preparation for the treatment of casualty expected in the Korean War.
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