Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug by Peter Pringle
English | May 8th, 2012 | ISBN: 0802717748, 1620401983 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2.81 MB
In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest diseases.