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Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist

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