Penicillin
Forever enshrined in scientific legend, the discovery of penicillin - a group of antibiotics used to combat a variety of bacterial infections - is really just a case of dirty dishes. Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming took an August vacation from his day-to-day work in the lab investigating staphylococci, known commonly as staph. Upon his return on Sept. 3, 1928, the perceptive scientist found a strange fungus on a culture he had left in his lab - a fungus that had killed off all surrounding bacteria in the culture. Modern medicine was never the same.
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