Who invented Penicillin?
AMadam Curie
BIan Fleming
CA.J. Cronin
DAlexander Fleming
Answer:
D. Alexander Fleming
Read Explanation:
Penicillin was discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming.
In 1928, while studying the Staphylococcus bacteria in his laboratory, he accidentally discovered penicillin. He noticed that mold had grown in a petri dish and that bacteria were not growing around that mold. He realized that this mold was Penicillium notatum, and that it produced a substance that destroyed bacteria. He named that substance 'Penicillin'.
