Chapter 61 The first Nobel Prize talent (second update, please collect it)
The pattern is about to open up!
Since we stand on the shoulders of historical giants, we must take bigger steps.
Although I am taking big steps, it is easy to lose my temper. But... ten thousand years is too long, just seize the day.
Just when Li Yi'an decided to take a step forward, Hedrick had already arrived at Mayo Hospital. In the basement of Mayo Hospital, he found the person he was looking for on this trip.
"Mr. Schatz, this is the condition offered to you by Jisheng Pharmaceutical, a salary of 500 US dollars per month, and a room..."
Looking at the basement with the door closed, Hedrick said.
“A laboratory with better conditions than here.”
“Sir, the reason why I chose to be here is because there is no protective equipment. In order to avoid the spread of tuberculosis bacilli, it will be harmful to other people. People cause harm, after all, someone has been infected with tuberculosis, so I can only hide in the underground laboratory and work alone to prevent infecting others."
Albert Schatz's answer made Haidri. Ke admired.
"Understood, Mr. Schatz is a kind-hearted person, so you deserve better experimental conditions, and of course, better treatment."
"But..."
Albert Schatz said.
“I still have a doctoral thesis that needs to be published, and Mr. Waxman is here to supervise my thesis.”
“Mr. Schatz, there will be better professors in New York, Better scholars, I can assure you that the company will never affect your studies. I know that you just quit working in the military hospital because of a back injury. Why did you come back to Waxman? Laboratory work is because there is no better choice. Now, the opportunity is right in front of you. If I were you, I would seize this opportunity tightly. After all, your family and you personally need this Work.”
While speaking, Hedrick handed a contract to him and emphasized.
“This is a long-term employment contract.”
For Albert Schatz, who was born in a poor family, there is no doubt that this contract is full of temptation, even if it is $500, Even Professor Waxman's salary is not that high.
"Let, let me think about it..."
In fact, many times, ordinary people have no choice. For Albert Shah, who came from a poor farmer family in Connecticut, For Ci, he knew what he should do.
...
"Okay, another Nobel Prize is in hand!"
After receiving Hedrick's telegram, Li Yi'an leaned back on his chair and blew gently Whistle. "What a pity, is a Nobel Prize without scandal still a Nobel Prize?"
Who is Albert Schatz?
It was the real inventor of streptomycin.
However, his credit was stolen, which is the most famous academic scandal in academic history.
Albert Schatz studied soil biology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, not because he was passionate about soil, but because he had no better choice. He felt that learning soil biology could at least be of some use on the farm.
In 1943, professional knowledge gave Schatz the intuition that there would be new antibiotics in soil microorganisms that would keep pace with penicillin. Penicillin does not work against a type of bacteria called Gram-negative bacteria. The microorganisms that cause tuberculosis belong to this type of bacteria. So Schatz patiently tested thousands of samples, and in less than a year, he developed the first drug that could eliminate gram-negative bacteria, streptomycin. This is one of the most significant breakthroughs in microbiology of the 20th century.
Salman Waxman, Schatz's instructor, immediately noticed his discovery. He had never dared to enter the laboratory because of fear of infection. He immediately took charge of the clinical trial of the drug, during which he asked Schatz signed an agreement transferring the patent rights to Rutgers University. Later, the young Schatz discovered that Waxman had taken all the credit for the discovery and prevented him from being invited to various meetings, so that the praise and attention that should have belonged to Schatz belonged to Schatz. Owned by Mann Waxman.
Waxman not only stole the glory, but also the money. Although Schatz opposed patenting this drug that was beneficial to humans, at the insistence of their mentor, the two jointly filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office and agreed. If the patent is granted, it will be sold to the University of Grasse for one dollar, which means that he will not receive any financial benefit from the invention.
But what Schatz never expected was that the University of Glass and Waxman reached a private agreement: 20% of the bonus would go to Waxman himself.
In the following years, Waksman not only received honors—including the Nobel Prize in 1952 as the inventor of streptomycin—but also made millions of dollars in annual profits. divided into.
What will happen to Schatz, whose original intentions were betrayed and his reputation was stolen?
Unable to get any satisfactory results, Schatz eventually sued Waxman and Rutgers, and won. In the settlement agreement, as the discoverer, he became a "co-discoverer" and received part of the royalties and honors, but the lawsuit itself ruined him: it was considered a bad move to sue an academic superior.
In this way, Schatz, who should have won the Nobel Prize and huge wealth as the inventor of streptomycin, was attacked by the entire academic community - academic circles are not limited to China. Not only did he lose his job, but even his papers were destroyed. He has been repeatedly rejected by mainstream magazines.
It was not until 20 years after Waxman's death that the American Society for Microbiology made a belated effort to make amends by inviting Schatz to deliver a lecture to the society on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of streptomycin. In recognition of his achievements, the society awarded Schatz its highest award: the Selman Waxman Medal.
Life is sometimes so full of irony.
This is definitely the biggest scandal in academic history. The tutor stole the students' results and won the Nobel Prize and the honor of "Father of Antibiotics", but where is the real inventor?
Being beaten, rejected, and depressed all your life!
But now, everything has changed. Schatz will conduct experiments in the laboratory provided by the company. No one will take away his honor. Of course, his patents will also belong to the company.
How much profit will streptomycin bring to the company before the patent expires?
The corners of his lips raised slightly, and Li Yian said proudly.
"By then, this will no longer be a matter of one or two small goals!"
By then, just the profits of pharmaceutical companies may even be able to support North Borneo. of post-war reconstruction!
Once again, Li Yian's mind flew to that land in Southeast Asia, even though it was a remote country with only a few hundred thousand people, and he still didn't even know anything about it, but so what.
This piece of meat must be eaten no matter what!
(End of this chapter)