What nationality was Alexander Fleming, the physician who first demonstrated penicillin's antibacterial effect?
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Which journal published Alexander Fleming's original 1929 paper describing penicillin?
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British Journal of Experimental Pathology
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Which Fleming student first used penicillin successfully to treat an eye infection in 1930?
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Cecil George Paine
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Which country did Florey and Heatley visit in June 1941 to seek large-scale penicillin production?
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United States
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Fleming described his penicillin discovery to which club on 13 February 1929?
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Medical Research Club
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In what year did penicillin become commercially available in the United States?
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1945
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Where was Howard Florey sent in 1943 for penicillin field trials?
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North Africa