Object Details
- Description
- Albert Israel Schatz (1920-2005) was a young graduate student working with Selman Waksman at Rutgers University when they found that Streptomyces griseus produces an antibiotic now known as streptomycin. Dr. Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize for this work. Dr. Schatz was recognized as a co-discoverer and received a share of the royalties from the drug. This sample of streptomycin in a sealed test tube is from the first lot produced at Rutgers University and sent to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for the first animal trials.
- Ref: Albert I. Schatz and Selman Waksman, "Improvement in Streptomycin and Processes of Preparation," U.S. Patent 2,449,866 (September 21, 1948).
- “Albert Schatz, Microbiologist, Dies at 84,” New York Times (Feb. 2, 2005), p. A19.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1944-2
- Measurements
- overall: 6.6802 cm x .635 cm; 2 5/8 in x 1/4 in
- overall: 2 5/8 in x 3/8 in x 3/8 in; 6.6675 cm x .9525 cm x .9525 cm
- Object Name
- Antibiotic
- biological
- antibiotic
