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Quote of the day by Howard Florey: Great ideas often come from unexpected places; never underestimate

Howard Florey, alongside his Oxford team, transformed Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery into a life-saving drug. Their crucial work in isolating, purifying, and mass-producing penicillin in the late 1930s and early 1940s ushered in the antibiotic era. This groundbreaking achievement earned Florey a share of the 1945 Nobel Prize, cementing his legacy.