Forty-Five Years of Research at the NBRL, Boston, MassachusettsIn 1789, Horace Walpole defined serendipity as making discoveries by accident; it was through acceptance of this inherent chaos that some of historys most influential advances were made, such as Alfred Nobel and dynamite, Marie Curie and radium, and Alexander Fleming and penicillin. Usually chaotic serendipitous observations are either not recognized by hypothesis driven researchers or, if observed, rejected by them. Fortunately, the Naval Blood