Showing posts with label insiders vs outsiders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insiders vs outsiders. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2015

wartime penicillin : Outsiders vs Insiders

In 1940, Canada, Britain and America had similar equally insular little clubs of a few elite research oriented (Ivy League) universities, a few national government science agencies and a few top research-oriented pharmaceutical firms, all strung closely together like pearls on a necklace, down along their relatively compact major urban corridor.