It takes a specific kind of character to convince the entire scientific community that they're wrong. Galileo did it, Darwin did it and not long ago Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman did it. Now the Nobel prize laureate is taking on the education establishment in Israel.

Tel Aviv University chemistry researchers claim to be the first to have developed a technique that neutralizes the ability of bacteria to develop resistance to antibiotics, according to a paper just published in the journal Organic Biomolecular Chemistry by Dr. Micha Fridman and partners at the University of Michigan.