1. Tardigrade
  2. Question
  3. Biology
  4. Who coined the term antibiotics?

Question Error Report

Thank you for reporting, we will resolve it shortly

Back to Question

Q. Who coined the term antibiotics?

MGIMS WardhaMGIMS Wardha 2008

Solution:

Alexander Fleming (1929) discovered first antibiotic penicillin from Penicillium notatum. Selman Waksman (1945) coined the term antibiotic, he got Nobel Prize- A Fleming is regarded as "Father of Antibiotics".