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DUGGAR, Benjamin Minge (1872 – 1956)

1872 – 1956

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1948 CE

#7863

Aureomycin; a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics.

Discovery of clortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle) the first tetracycline antibiotic identified. Duggar,a plant physiologist, identified the antibiotic as the product of an actinomycete he cultured from a …