I certainly did not plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or killer of bacteria. But I suppose that is exactly what I did.
— Alexander Fleming Modern

Discovery of penicillin

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1945

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/fleming/lecture/

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