title: Streptomycin: discovery and resultant controversy.
abstract: The antibiotic streptomycin was discovered soon after penicillin was introduced into medicine. Selman Waksman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery, has since generally been credited as streptomycin's sole discoverer. However, one of Waksman's graduate students, Albert Schatz, was legally recognized as streptomycin's co-discoverer and received a share of the royalties from the drug. The aim of this essay is to discuss the streptomycin story, largely using previously unquoted archival material, and in particular to provide further evidence for the important role which Schatz played in the discovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, England.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wainwright
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013307:Streptomycin / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D013307:Streptomycin