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| Born | January 8, 1930  La Crosse |
| Died | September 27, 2013 (aged 83) Guttenberg |
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Fern Pfafflin Rathe (January 8, 1930 – September 27, 2013) was an American organic chemist who helped discover cathomycin, an antibiotic used to treat strains of the bacteria Staphylococcus, while working at pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.