What is Clodomiro Picado?
{{Infobox Person | name =Clodomiro Picado | residence = | other_names = | image = | imagesize =220px | caption =Dr. Picardo holding a [[snake]] | birth_name =Clodomiro Picado Twight | birth_date =April 17, 1887 | birth_place =[[San Marcos]], [[Nicaragua]] | death_date = May 16, 1944 | death_place =[[San José, Costa Rica]] | death_cause = | known = | occupation = Biologist | title = }} '''Clodomiro Picado Twight''' (April 17, 1887 - May 16, 1944) was a [[Nicaragua]]n born [[Costa Rica]]n biologist. Picado may have been the first to have learned about [[penicillin]]. ==Early life and education== Picado was born in [[San Marcos, Nicaragua]] but moved, with his parents, to Costa Rica in 1890. In 1908, Picado won a [[scholarship]] of the [[Costa Rican Congress]] to study in [[Paris]], [[France]]. In 1913, he finished his [[university]] studies in [[La Sorbonne]], where he earned his BSc in [[zoology]] and [[botany]], as well as a [[PhD|doctorate degree]]. In the same year, he came back to Costa Rica to run the [[laboratory]] of [[San Juan de Dios Hospital]]. At the same time, he was [[teaching]] sciences at San Luis Gónzaga School in [[Cartago city]]. ==Discoveries== Sir [[Alexander Fleming]], a [[Scotland|Scottish]] scientist, is commonly said to be the person who learned about the [[bacteria|antibacterial]] [[wikt:attack|attacks]] of a [[fungus]] known as ''[[Penicillium notatum]]'' in 1928. But in March 2000, Costa Rican [[Medical doctor|doctors]] showed some [[notebook]]s with [[research]] belonging to Picado. In these notebooks, he explained his [[experiment]]s between 1915 and 1927. These experiments had been developed to explain that Penicillium decreased bacterial activity. Picado had reported his work to the [[Paris Academy of Sciences]] in France, but this academy did not [[patent]] it, even though Picado had studied the fungus years before Fleming. Picado studied the creation of various anti-[[Venom (poison)|venom]] [[serum]]s. This led to the create of the [[Instituto Clodomiro Picado]] in 1970. It i