Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Council of the Caroline Institute at the University of Stockholm awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology jointly to Drs. Hess and Moniz. His half of the $30,000 would come in handy to Dr. Hess. Said he: "It will simplify my work. I have certain plans and everything costs money . . . Now I will be able to hire assistants...
Dust to Dust. Long before Waksman began his work on soil, scientists had noted that if a diseased body is buried, the point of burial does not become a plague spot. Instead, something in the soil destroys the germs. It was proved that micro-organisms were doing the police job. But how, exactly, did one microorganism destroy another? By eating it? Beating it to the feed trough? Chemical warfare...
Says modest Dr. Waksman: "I get students from all over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos loose on the activities of microbes in reducing plant fibers to humus...
Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet...
...streptomycin money, the search for better antibiotics goes on. The requirements for a new antibiotic seeking membership in the select club are getting stiffer all the time. Explains Waksman: to qualify, a new drug must kill some kinds of germs more effectively than any drug now known; it must work well in the body and not damage the body; it should be stable and soluble in water...