>Alexander Fleming not a great example, Penicillin was only made possible due to government funding to refine the manufacturing process for war >As to the che

>Alexander Fleming not a great example, Penicillin was only made possible due to government funding to refine the manufacturing process for war >As to the chemical isolation and purification, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up the research to mass-produce it, which they achieved with support from World War II military projects under the U.S. and British governments and you could make the case that if the Allies just handed that research over to their enemies it would prolong the war