Ernest Duchesne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physician
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Ernest Duchesne
- Ernest Duchesne (30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912) 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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