Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Role of
random
chance / luck
- Alexander Fleming and Penicillin
- Unwashed dishes left by a window in his lab
- He noticed that the mould killed bacteria
- He wrote his findings in a research paper - Florey and Chain used this to develop Penicillin
- James Simpson and Chloroform
- He was interested in finding anaesthetics
- Process of trial and error
- Tried various substances on himself and friends
- This is how he discovered chloroform
- Discovery of Chicken Cholera vaccine
- Pasteur and his team were working on vaccines
- Chicken cholera solution was left in the lab over the summer
- Charles Chamberland injected chickens with it
- They didn't die and also survived when injected with fresh samples of cholera
- They had developed a vaccine and also
discovered that watered down versions
of the disease worked ad vaccines
- Edward Jenner and Smallpox
- Jenner wanted to inoculate patients
- He noticed that cow maids didn't catch smallpox
- He studied this and developed a vaccine
- But he couldn't explain the science behind it