The Discovery of Streptomycin and a Life It Saved
by
Inge Auerbacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2006
As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor,...