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27 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. His best known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world’s first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernest Boris Chain. Take…

30 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He’s also known for his breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases. Take a look below for 30 more fascinating and interesting facts about Louis Pasteur. 1. Pasteur reduced mortality rates from…