Showing posts with label nobel prize 1945 medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nobel prize 1945 medicine. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2014

1945 Nobel prize for FAILURE in Medicine to Fleming and Florey

Admittedly , complaining about the Swedes and their awarding of Nobel prizes is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.

But their famous 1945 rewarding of a Nobel prize in medicine to some of the pioneers of penicillin has to rate near the top for ineptitude.