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Louis Pasteur
conducted first test, the process would later be known as Pasteurization -
Joseph Lister
Promoted sterile surgery, used phenol to clean equipment and wounds -
SmithKline Beecham
company who produces medication -
Rudolf Emmerich and Oscar Low
First ones to successfuly use microbes to fight other germs. -
Alexander Flemming
Discovered Penicillin -
Gerhard Domagk
Created first commercially available antibiotic -
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain
Concentrated and improved Flemming's Penicillin, first to try Penicillin on a human. -
Staphylococcus aureus
First pathogen to become resistant to penicillin, just 4 years after the start of mass production of penicillin. -
Selman Waksman
Isolated over 20 antibiotics and was awarded the nobel prize -
Lloyd Conover
Inventor of Tetracycline, first to produce an antibiotic by chemically modifying a natural drug
