The president of Harvard said, "The purpose of higher education is to make you discern that someone is talking nonsense. Penicillin was 🇬🇧 discovered by british scientist Fleming by accident

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The Harvard chancellor said: "The purpose of higher education is to make you discern that someone is talking nonsense. ”

Penicillin was accidentally discovered by British 🇬🇧 scientist Fleming, a bacterial culture medium forgot to cover the lid, mold contamination found that bacteria died, is the green mold have the ability to kill bacteria? An experiment found that dilution hundreds of times can kill bacteria, so the substance was called penicillin. The discovery of penicillin was a great contribution, but the large-scale preparation and production was completed by two other scientists, Flåm and Qiann, named penicillin, and the three were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945, and Fleming always gave up applying for a penicillin patent.