Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Scottish bacteriologist; isolated lysozyme from tears (1922); observed a mold, he named penicillin, that prevented bacterial growth.

  1. Max Theodor Felix von Laue

  2. Alexander Fleming

  3. Thomas Midgley Jr.

  4. Frederick Soddy
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Alexander Fleming, the Scottish bacteriologist, discovered lysozyme in 1922 and famously observed the penicillin mold in 1928, revolutionizing antibiotic medicine.

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