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>A scientist found mold in a petri dish that killed bacteria—and boom, we got penicillin. Casually leaving out the vast effort of a whole team of people to dev
by hermitcrab 2y ago
>A scientist found mold in a petri dish that killed bacteria—and boom, we got penicillin.
Casually leaving out the vast effort of a whole team of people to develop the drug:
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/how-was-penicillin-developed https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/how-was...
Fleming gets the credit, but Florey and a whole team of people of other people did the hard work.
- from-nibly 2y agoPresumably while having a plan