Martin Henry Dawson : MAN of METTLE ...

Michael Marshall

Dr Martin Henry Dawson was not the first person to discover the nettles of Recombinant DNA and Penicillin : merely the first person to firmly "grasp their nettles" and run with them.

For Dawson was a scientist of deeds, not mere words.

Griffith and Fleming were basically content to
merely publicly detail these scientifically unorthodox nettles and then leave their grasping to others much braver.

For "Great Deeds take Great Courage", as it has been frequently noted for centuries:

"Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you, for your pains.
But grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains."
    (Works, Aaron Hill, 1750)