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Vincenzo Tiberio
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<p>Vincenzo Tiberio (May 1, 1869 – January 7, 1915) was an Italian researcher and medical officer of the Medical Corps of the Italian Navy and physician at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Naples/Ch8TjYPA">University of Naples</a>. Observing that people complained of intestinal disorders after the walls of a <a href="/facts/Water_well/aPFvzk3V">well</a> which supplied drinking water was cleaned off, he published a little noticed 1895 paper on the bactericidal effect of some <a href="/facts/Mold/7nHqptM7">molds</a>, 35 years before <a href="/facts/Alexander_Fleming/qvMjfNVA">Alexander Fleming</a>'s discovery of <a href="/facts/Penicillin/Abo8VQ3p">penicillin</a>. </p>