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Biology
Microbes in Human Welfare
81 questions from 35 papers, each with its answer.
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Antibiotics
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The term "antibiotic" was coined by : -Selman Waksman, who discovered streptomycin from Streptomyces griseus (Nobel Prize 1952), coined the term 'antibiotic' in 1942 for chemical substances produced by microbes that kill or inhibit the growth of other microbes.
Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin (1928), but did not coin the term. Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine, and Louis Pasteur developed vaccines and disproved spontaneous generation.
So the term antibiotic was coined by Selman Waksman.
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