Unnecessary Opposition
One day, reporters asked the English microbiologist Alexander
Fleming about how he discovered penicillin.
- In life I was always not lucky, - hard breathing, the scientist began. – in
As a child, I was very sick and dreamed of becoming a doctor, but my parents...
The poor farmers didn’t have the money to fulfill my dream. Then they
We broke up and moved to London.
And then your dream came true: did you go to university?
“Yes, but I was accepted only because I was a good swimmer. because of
Constant training and competition time for study
There was still, and the greatest thing that the future has promised me is a modest future.
work in a provincial town.
Were your talents valued?
“Yes, but Professor White invited me to his laboratory just because of the
He needed a strong assistant. The professor did not like it.
My talent and my growth.
And in his lab, did you make a remarkable discovery?
But another failure helped. When I put the experiences, I put
The strong wind, the fortress opened, and through my cups Petri
There was controversy about the mushroom. Naturally, the experiment was ruined, and
I was threatened with great trouble. In despair, I decided more carefully.
to look at the uninvited "guests" and opened the penicillin...
Is that where you are finally lucky?
Yes, but at first, colleagues called penicillin a “questionable remedy.”
I am a medieval alchemist. Only during World War II
Excellent therapeutic properties of the new drug were revealed.
Did you get the well-deserved fame?
Yes but when? Penicillin was discovered by me in 1929, and by the end of
The war has all forgotten who did it. In 1945, it was difficult.
They were searched to award the Nobel Prize.