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...seven: Carl Ferdinand Cori (carbohydrate metabolism), Selman Waksman (streptomycin), Max Theiler (yellow fever), Edward Kendall and Philip Hench (cortisone), John F. Enders (virus propagation), Biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud (see SCIENCE...
...Microbiologist Selman Waksman announced that German scientists have taken the sting from his drug, actinomycin, turned it into a potential weapon against: 1. Polio...
...Waksman himself tried hard to tame actinomycin, but none of his chemical tricks seemed to work. After thousands of animals had been killed in his Rutgers University lab, he gave up and began hunting other antibiotics. By 1943, he found the wonder drug, streptomycin. In 1949. he and his assistants produced neomycin (TIME, April 4, 1949). Actinomycin became a half-forgotten curiosity. Dr. Waksman kept only a sample somewhere in the litter on his desk...
Meanwhile, in West Germany's Bayer Institute for Experimental Pathology, other researchers read his reports on the drug's selective toxin. Directed by another Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Gerhard Domagk, the Germans took up where Waksman left off. Working with fungus cultures, they isolated actinomycin C, a new form of the original antibiotic...
...this scanty evidence, Dr. Waksman and his German colleagues allow themselves only cautious optimism. But Waksman is sure that scientists will now be going back to the 100 or more antibiotics that have been discarded as too toxic. Perhaps others will be found among them to attack specific types of cancer cells...