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Actually it was Sir Alexander Fleming who invented the first antibiotic in 1928, called penicillin. It was considered unsafe and illegal due to lack of testing, so FDA didn't approve it. But the first safe antibiotic was invented in 1945 by British scientist Howard florey(1898-1968) and Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) who had expanded the penicillin research of Scottish.

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When was the discovery of antibiotics?

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When were antibiotics against TB discovered?

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Who is the greatest bacteriologist who discovered antibiotics?

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