Alexander Fleming
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Discover how a lack of orderliness in his lab, led to Alexander Fleming discovering penicillin. The most powerful of all antibiotics, it has changed the face of medicine in a profound way. His initial work and publications on this started what was to become the development of one of the most important scientific and medical discoveries in history. Where would we be without it today?
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