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Benjamin M. Duggar, son of a beloved country doctor, carried a dedicated spirit to the frontiers of science. Having earned degrees at Alabama, Auburn, Missouri, Harvard, and Cornell, he taught at Cornell, Missouri, and Wisconsin, and completed his researches and discoveries at Lederle Laboratories. Discoverer of the antibiotic Aureomycin, he opened a new era in medicine that helped physicians save the lives of millions. This was the site of his birthplace and boyhood home, three hundred yards away.
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