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Streptomycin was invented by

  • A.Marie Curie
  • B.Fleming
  • C.Selman Waksman
  • D.None of these

Answer: C

Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin.

He and his student Albert Schatz isolated it from a soil actinomycete in 1943; it was the first effective treatment for tuberculosis. Waksman coined the word antibiotic and received the Nobel Prize in 1952.

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