Ignaz Semmelweis
1818 – 1865 · Hungary · Medicine
Proved handwashing saves mothers' lives; ridiculed and died in an asylum.
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- Alexander Fleming
1881 – 1955 · Medicine, Biology
Semmelweis's antisepsis is the infection-control frame antibiotics later joined.
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