Individuals

• In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA. They also proved DNA was in every human cell and was passed down from parents to children through their genes
• William Beveridge wrote a report about the state of Britain in 1942. Prime minister Clement Attlee and Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan implemented the NHS and the welfare state in the basis of this
• Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928. His work was taken up by Florey and Chain ten years later