Albert Schatz (science)

Albert Schatz (born 1920[1]) isolated streptomycin in the course of his graduate work at Rutgers University. The antibiotic was the first effective treatment for tuberculosis and a number of other diseases.

Schatz's supervisor, Selman Abraham Waksman, took the credit for Schatz's work and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for it in 1952. Waksman contributed nothing to the work; he initially rejected the project and did not even enter the laboratory where Schatz made his important discovery.

He now sharpens knives for Weavers Way Co-op .[2]

External links

• Memoirs at Rutgers Oral History Archives
• [http://www.fluoridation.com/schatz.htm Schatz on]
• article from The Guardian