Word: bacteriologists
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Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1917, Taft came to the United States at age five when her father accepted a research position in Ashville, Tenn. The family later moved to Boston where Taft’s father, Louis Dienes, served as chief bacteriologist...
Serendipity intervenes: in the London summer of 1928, an open window in a hospital lab lets in a spore that settles on a staphylococcus-culture dish left unwashed. A mold grows and contaminates the staphylococcus. The lab user returns. Because he's bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, and because his lab has not been cleaned, penicillin is discovered...