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9 illustrations across 2 categories
In 1940, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at Oxford University proved that Alexander Fleming's overlooked mold could cure deadly bacterial infections. But they hit...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a mess. A petri dish of...
In the summer of 1943, a lab assistant named Mary Hunt walked into a Peoria, Illinois, fruit market and picked up a bruised cantaloupe covered...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he had left...