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Same as the famous discovery of Penicillin in a petri dish contaminated with a mold that killed off the bacteria? ...but now I'm starting to wonder how many pe
by rob74 2y ago
Same as the famous discovery of Penicillin in a petri dish contaminated with a mold that killed off the bacteria?
...but now I'm starting to wonder how many people working in a lab didn't clean their hands well, licked their fingers, and died, because they had accidentally discovered a toxin?
- Eisenstein 2y agoExcept it happened to be in a petri dish and it happened to be observed at the time by a scientist. Total accident!
- bregma 2y agoSerendipity favours the prepared mind. That's all.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoDying is still a valuable scientific outcome, but few people become famous for it except maybe Marie Curie.