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प्रश्न
Name the scientists who were credited for showing the role of Penicillin as an antibiotic?
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उत्तर
Its full potential as an effective antibiotic was established much later by Ernest 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.
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