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No new thing under the sun (?): on claims to the discovery of Penicillin prior to 1928

Since penicillin came to be developed as an anti-bacterial chemotherapeutic agent during the Second World War numerous challenges to the status of Alexander Fleming as its discoverer have appeared both in print and in other formats. These assertions are examined here from the perspective of current...

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Main Author:	Gilbert Shama
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified Penicillin Alexander Fleming Discoveries in science Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/24706
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