One of the saddest ironies of the fifteen wasted years before the world got the best lifesaver ever known - penicillin - was that it was real chemists who finally delivered natural penicillin in time for D-Day and to save the millions under threat of epidemic deaths in the aftermath of WWII.
Let us then honor them - names like Glaxo's Harry Jephcott , Pfizer's John L Smith and the WPB-OPRD's Larry Elder.
By contrast, it was chemist manques - chemist wannabes - who wasted decades, millions of human lives and millions in taxpayers' money in a hubris-fueled chase after the mirage of man-made penicillin.
Let us then honor them - names like Glaxo's Harry Jephcott , Pfizer's John L Smith and the WPB-OPRD's Larry Elder.
By contrast, it was chemist manques - chemist wannabes - who wasted decades, millions of human lives and millions in taxpayers' money in a hubris-fueled chase after the mirage of man-made penicillin.
