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serendipity

The ability to make happy discoveries by accident. The word was coined by Horace Walpole 1754, after the fairy tale ‘The Three Princes of Serendip’. Serendip is an archaic name for Sri Lanka.



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HAPPY ACCIDENTS: SERENDIPITY IN MODERN MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS tells of happy accidental discoveries in the world of science, documenting events and also providing insights into how these accidents came to be realized as beneficial.
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