it is a great name for a genetic mutation, "the philadelphia chomosome". years later i became a free-lance writer, wanted to dig in a little more, to understand what was it, maybe there was the magazine article, i started talking to some people, including brian druker and other people i knew by that point and my research began with the question of why is it called "the philadelphia chomosome"? as you might have guessed, is called that named after the city where it was discovered. in 1959 two scientists, were researching sells looking through a microscope resurging different cells. peter noel stumbled across this method for expanding sells more even they had been expanded before end because he was in a hurry he was very dangerous to cure cancer actually, young and ambitious and thought he could do it in the summer so rinsed under tab water instead of the special laboratory water. the cells ballooned out and suddenly he could see chromosomes of a little bit more than people had been able to see them until that point. this is in 1959 compared to what we have