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Other companies did, and got into penicillin faster. But Merck got a head start with the next antibiotic, streptomycin. When Rutgers' Dr. Selman Waksman found that his beloved soil bacteria had made something that killed many germs which penicillin did not affect, he took the culture to Rahway. Though half a dozen companies are making streptomycin today, the best guess is that Merck microbes, in their own temple of vats at Elkton, Va., make 40% of the U.S. output...
...Selman A. Waksman, who made enough money as co-discoverer of streptomycin to finance a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University (TIME, May 16, 1949), last week turned over half ($40,000 a year) of his remaining royalties to a new foundation. Its purpose: to support professorships and fellowships, finance the publication of technical papers and books, sponsor scientific meetings, and help in the development of microbiological discoveries for practical use in all parts of the free world...
...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 and duress...
Under last week's settlement, Dr. Waksman's original 20% of the earnings on the drug will hereafter be divided between himself (10%), Dr. Schatz (3%) and 14 other collaborating scientists. Dr. Schatz will receive a flat $125,000 for his share in the foreign sales. Special bonuses will be handed out to a group of twelve helpful laboratory workers, including the widow of a lab dishwasher who died last year. The Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation, which had largely financed the work, and controls the patents, will continue to collect the lion's share-about...
Said Russell Watson, attorney for Waksman and Rutgers: "Baseless and preposterous . . . Dr. Schatz's work . . . was performed as a carefully supervised laboratory assistant...