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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...

Author: By Elliott N. Neal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pioneer Female MD Dies at 85 | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Baekeland, plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100 Persons Of The Century | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich uses a form of arsenic to combat syphilis; his work forms the basis of modern chemotherapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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