Penicillin

“Florey was not only a hard worker and a clever scientist, he was a great organizer. He had the ability to recognize and to use the relevant special talents of his colleagues and assistants, and he had a very special quality of his own, the ability to inspire the confidence and enthusiasm of a group of experts so that they became a very effective team under his leadership. In 1939, with almost no money to fund such a research and with the shadows of war darkening the whole of Europe, Florey decided to gamble all his resources and those of his department on penicillin, a dark horse at best, and quite possibly a non-starter” (Macfarlane, 170).