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Name the scientist who first discovered penicillin antibiotic. Can you name any other known antibiotic?

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In 1928, Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery until 1945.
Name of the other antibiotics are amoxicillin, ampicillin, bacampicillin, carbenicillin.

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