Experiment Eleven : Deceit And Betrayal in The Discovery of The Cure For Tuberculosis

In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American Ph.D. student working in professor Selman Waksmans lab, was searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. On his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, at that time the leading killer among the worlds infectious diseases.