In September 1928, Dr Alexander Fleming returned to his lab after one month of vacation. Every thing inside the lab was in disarray as if the cleaning staff had not entered his lab for ages. He set upon throwing away the garbage when he found out that the set of Petri dishes that he has used to grow Staphylococci had gone mouldy. After unstacking them before disposal, he observed something strange.
“The colonies of staphylococci surrounding this mould had been destroyed. “
“the mould which makes penicillin”
The green substance was produced by Fleming in his laboratory after he discovered penicillin in 1928.
It is not the first time in the history that a Petri dish of culture had gone mouldy.
Dr Fleming saw what thousands before him have already witnessed. But he thought what no one else had thought before him. The Nobel prize was awarded not for his eyes but to the brain and that thinking process inside.
What mind does not think, eyes cannot see.
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