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The origin of the term ‘antibiotic’ can be traced back to the wordantibiosefirst used as an antonym to symbiosis by Paul Vuillemin1in his 1890 publication to describe the antagonistic action between different microorganisms (for example, fungi vs bacteria; bacteria vs protozoa).2,3Later, the...
methods,50–52 and Hodgkin who used X-ray crystallography to decipher the structure,53 after the Red Cross brought a sample from Moscow.49 In 1964, Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances. ...