title: [Serendipities in medicine].
abstract: Coincidences accompany our lives. This paper shows to which extent serendipity plays a role in important discoveries and developments in medicine. These include, among others, Mendel's laws, the determination of the human chromosome number, the discovery of DNA by Watson and Crick, the PAP test, or the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity. But also and especially in pharmacology, there are many examples of serendipity. Some go closely with serendipities in the discovery of bacteriology.
authors: Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Freiburg, Victor-Kretz-Str. 11/13, 77723, Gengenbach, Deutschland. kwink@t-online.de.
authors: Konrad
authors: K
authors: Wink
authors: Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Hochschule Offenburg, Deutschland.
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Otte
mesh_terms: D008511:Medicine; D011336:Probability
keywords: Random; medicine; serendipity