Streptomyces griseus
date: label: Date made
content: 1943-10
name: label: maker
content: Schatz, Albert
notes: label: Description
content: Albert Israel Schatz (1920-2005) was a young graduate student at Rutgers University when he and his professor, Selman Waksman, 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 that fungus, on agar in a glass tube, is dated on Oct 19, 1943. A paper label reads "To Sheila / from / her Alboo / Oct. 1943."
label: Description
content: Ref: Albert I. Schatz and Selman Waksman, "Improvement in Streptomycin and Processes of Preparation," U.S. Patent 2,449,866 (September 21, 1948).
label: Description
content: "Dr. Schatz Wins 3% of Royalty; Named Cofounder of Streptomycin," New York Times (Dec. 30, 1950), pp. 1, 7.
label: Description
content: “Albert Schatz, Microbiologist, Dies at 84,” New York Times (Feb. 2, 2005), p. A19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0006.2
label: accession number
content: 2003.0006
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0006.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sample, bacteria
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 1.27 cm