Biology
- January - Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
- September 3 - Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin, forgotten since Ernest Duchesne's original discovery in 1896.
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