Ernest Duchesne
Physician
1874 – 1912
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Who was Ernest Duchesne?
Ernest Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain molds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those molds, but his research went unnoticed.
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