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Serendipity: The Role of Chance in Making Scientific Discoveries

By Dr. C. D. Sreenivasa Murthy One sometimes finds, what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise…

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Published December 28, 2019 · 7 min read
serendipity: the role of chanc

By Dr. C. D. Sreenivasa Murthy

One sometimes finds, what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did. — Alexander Fleming

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