Tired of always hearing about the same big names in biology, medicine, mathematics or astrophysics? The book Forgotten by science should please you. In this tightly documented and humorous comic, Camille Van Bell (who cut her teeth as a journalist in the science and medicine department). Figaro ) paints a portrait of about 40 scientists who, alas, did not mention the memories despite their success.
Do you know, for example, Ernest Duchene? At the end of the 19the century, this French doctor, then a thesis student on the effects of mold on bacteria, discovered the existence of antibiotics…thirty-one years before the British doctor Alexander Fleming, who “officially” discovered penicillin. Ironically, Duchene died at age 37, probably of tuberculosis. A bacterial infection that is very treatable today… thanks to antibiotics. His work was forgotten because the thesis supervisor was not…
Source: Le Figaro
