Multiple choice

Medical facility generally use streptomycin as an effective antibiotic. Who among the following discovered it?

  1. Sir Selman Waksman

  2. Sir Alexander Fleming

  3. Sir George Hannabel

  4. Sir Charles Richet
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Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Russian-born, Jewish-American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics.

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