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Created the first vaccines ever in history. He discovered these by working with chickens and found that he could not reinfect chickens with the same virus.
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Jospeh Lister created the first antiseptics for use in hospitals. Before him hospitals did not think it was neccary to wash hands. But, through his chemical solutions created a way to stop some infections in hospitals.
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Them together created the first Antibiotic drug, Pyocyanase. They were also had advances in microbiology
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Was the biologist who created the antibiotic penicilliun. He was also credited for the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme
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Howard along with Ernst worked along with a number of different scientists like Sir. Alexander Flemming for the work on Penicillin
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He is credited for the first commercially available drug Sulfonamidochrysoidine or Prontisil. As a result he recieved the nobel prize.
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He worked by watching organisms that lived in soil. Watching them decompose help lead to major discoveries of many major antibiotics. He discovered over 20 different antibiotics
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Was the inventor of Tetracycline. This was the first drug to be made by chemically altering a natural producing drug. He was inducted to the National Inventors hall of fame
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Streptococcus pneumoniae was the first organism resistant to penicillin during the time period, but was found on Austrilla. Another case the "bug" was found later in the United States
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Is one of the largest pharmaceutical,biologics,and vaccine companies in the world. The company is now called GlaxoSmithKline after a merger of a bunch of different companies.
