The Mold That Ended Wars

Alexander Fleming gets the credit. But the real story of penicillin is a decade of neglect, a wartime deadline, and a rotating cast of forgotten chemists racing to turn a laboratory curiosity into the drug that changed what it meant to survive. This week, we trace the distance between 'discovered' and 'delivered' — and ask why we keep collapsing that gap when we hand out history. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.