Streptomycin
date: label: Date made
content: 1944-2
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
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: “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: 2003.0006.1
label: accession number
content: 2003.0006
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0006.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Antibiotic
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: antibiotic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.6802 cm x .635 cm; 2 5/8 in x 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 3/8 in x 3/8 in; 6.6675 cm x .9525 cm x .9525 cm