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...researchers who worked together for seven years to discover the wonder-drug streptomycin, and then had a falling-out last year (TIME, March 20), finally patched up their difference in a New Jersey court. With the approval of Judge E. Thomas Schettino, Rutgers University's famed Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud...
Like most scientific discoveries of modern times, streptomycin was found as a result of teamwork. Members of the 1943 team working on antibiotics in the Department of Microbiology at New Jersey's Rutgers University were Dr. Selman A. Waksman, head of the department, and a group of graduate students including Albert Schatz. By 1946, when Schatz left the campus, it was still not clear how rich a gold mine streptomycin would prove...
...SELMAN A. WAKSMAN
Long Road. By 1915, when he graduated, Selman Waksman already had one toe on the threshold of a great discovery: he had found in the soil a microbe which he has since named Streptomyces griseus.* He had no reason to suspect that it was a life-saving drug. A year later he wrote his master's thesis on this and related microbes. He was on the road to streptomycin, but it would be almost 30 years before he reached the end of the road...
Meanwhile, Selman married Deborah Mitnick, a girl from the old country who had come to join her brother in the U.S. Back at Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology, after getting his Ph.D. at the University of California, Waksman worked mostly on the soil problems of farmers. But he began asking himself a question which is still far from answered: What do microbes do to the soil, to each other, and ultimately...