Penicillin revolutionized the medical field and it is likely that most people reading this tweet today benefited from Fleming's discovery at some point in their lives.
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It is a bit of an urban legend that Fleming was responsible for the development of penicillin.
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Fleming discovered it, but was terrible at development. Howard Florey was the one that took it out of a lab and secured the funding to turn it into a drug. Most "discoveries" are far more complex (and interesting) than their single point creation myths.
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Yes, although he 'discovered' it (accidentally), he didn't really pursue it as a curative agent. Rather it was Florey and Chain who did the hard yards in isolating it, trialling it and most importantly working out how to mass produce it (and probably influenced WW2's outcome)
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Sure, but the piece didn't claim that- merely the discovery "Fleming’s discovery paved the way for the invention of antibiotic drugs...During WW2, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain from Oxford Uni...began large-scale research, hoping to be able to mass-produce the antibiotic."
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