“History doesn’t always roar ,
Sometimes it whispers from a petri dish.”
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the mold he was working with produced a substance that could kill many common bacteria. He called this new, exciting substance “mold juice”. Only after a couple of months did he name it penicillin.
Alexander Fleming’s “mould juice” became penicillin and transformed modern medicine.
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey were awarded the Nobel Prize 1945 for their discovery of penicillin and its curative effect on infectious diseases.
Humble to the very end, Fleming always insisted:
“I didn’t invent anything. I only discovered what nature had already made.”
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