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by hermitcrab 567 days 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...

Fleming gets the credit, but Florey and a whole team of people of other people did the hard work.

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Presumably while having a plan