question_answer 59)

  Name the scientists who were credited for showing the role of penicillin asan antibiotic?

Answer:

                  Penicillin was discovered by sir Alexander Fleming white, working on Staphytococd bacteria. However, its full potential as an effective antibiotic was established much later by Ernst Chain and Howard Florey. This antibiotic was extensively used to treat American soldiers wounded in World War II. Fleming, Chain and Florey were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945, for this discovery.