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Fleming discovers penicillin in 1928
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In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his St. Mary's Hospital lab after a holiday and noticed a blue-green mould on a Staphylococcus plate had cleared the surrounding bacteria. He named the compound penicillin, a discovery that would eventually save an estimated 500 million lives.
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