A scientist who didn’t “hide the decline”
Sunday, December 13th, 2009On September 28, 1928, a scientist in the laboratory of St. Mary's Hospital in London noticed that someone had left the lid off of a petri dish containing Staphylococcus plate culture. As a result of someone's mistake, a blue mould "contaminated" the petri dish, inhibiting the growth of the bacteria. Had this scientist worked at ...
