On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
Showing posts with label definition of a chemist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label definition of a chemist. Show all posts
Aug 26, 2010
a Penicillin Dictionary: the CHEMIST
A CHEMIST is someone who if asked to separate the wheat from the chaff and upon discovering that the chaff can be crystallized and that the wheat can't be, promptly crystallizes the chaff and throws away the wheat....
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