I mean, no, not really. Penicillin was discovered in 1928, ignored for many years, and then was industrialized in about a a year and half in 1941 by a half dozen researchers working at the University of Oxford. The Manhattan Project took 3 years, 130,000 employees, 33 Billion dollars in modern currency, and created industrial waste sites which will be contaminated for at least 25,000 years.