Benjamin Minge Duggar

Benjamin Minge Duggar
BornSeptember 1, 1872 
DiedSeptember 10, 1956  (aged 84)
Alma mater
OccupationPhytopathologist 
Employer

Benjamin Minge Duggar (September 1, 1872 – September 10, 1956) was an American plant physiologist.: 72  Surprisingly, he is best remembered for his contribution to another discipline, through his discovery in 1945 of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin), the first of the tetracycline antibiotics, from a soil bacterium growing in farmland.

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