The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming probably led to the other antibiotics but as a whole I have read that anti-biotics are responsible for hundreds of millions perhaps even more, of people not dying prematurely.
That may just be the most important discovery of them all. How much longer it will be effective is anyone’s guess but I bet the come up with new ones as old ones become less effective.
Professors have many graduate students working for them under their direction that do the grunt work. They do get “some” joint credit in publications and such but to suggest that a grad student should be credited with the discoveries he makes following the directions of a superior is just silly.
Streptomycin is what I was given in 1970 after I came down with plague. I’d probably not be around if not for streptomycin.
Thank you, Dr. Waksman, I owe you my life.
So Dr. Waksman is a crook and scoundrel, for stealing Dr. Schatz work. All the makings of a dramatic movie. Except both died before the truth came to light. I hope Waksman’s name is blotted out from the history books and Dr. Schatz is given proper credit. And if a movie is made, that Dr. Waksman is completely discredited. Too many crooks out there stealing other inventor’s ideas and work.
Waksman showing signs of Global Warming and Climate Change character fraud and greed...
When you work for someone else, and invent something, the invention belongs to the employer. Discoveries operate the same way. Dr Waksman was the employer, grad student Schatz was the employee. It was Dr. Waksman who directed the work and “owned” the discovery. Waksman maybe should have shared some of the fame, but he was not required to share the reward. Schatz’s reward was his pay.