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Chapter 61 The first Nobel Prize talent (second update, please collect)
  The pattern is about to open!

Since we are standing on the shoulders of historical giants, we must take bigger steps.

Even though I am taking big steps, it is easy for me to pull my balls. 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 Jisheng Pharmaceutical offers you, a monthly salary of US$500, and a room..."

Hedrick said after glancing at the basement where the door was closed.

"A testing room 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 bacteria and cause harm to other people, after all, someone has already been infected with tuberculosis, so I can only hide in the underground laboratory alone. Work to prevent infecting others.”

Albert Schatz's answer impressed Hedrick.

"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 my doctoral thesis to be published, and Mr. Waxman is here to guide my thesis."

"Mr. Schatz, there will be better professors and better scholars in New York. I can assure you that the company will never affect your studies. I know that you just left the military hospital because of a back injury. Work, the reason why you came to work in Waxman's laboratory again 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 job."

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, this contract was undoubtedly full of temptation. At $500, even Professor Waxman's salary was not that high.

"Let, let me think about it..."

In fact, many times, ordinary people have no choice. For Albert Schatz, who came from a poor farming family in Connecticut, 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 whistled softly. “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 soils, but because he had no better choice. He felt that learning soil biology could at least be of some use on the farm.

In 43, Schatz's 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.

Schatz's instructor Selman Waksman 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 to sign a Agreement, transferring 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 made a private agreement with Waxman: [-]% of the bonus would go to Waxman himself.

In the years that followed, Waksman not only received honors—including a Nobel Prize in 1952 as the inventor of streptomycin—but also received generous profit sharing of millions of dollars each year.

What will happen to Schatz, whose original intentions have been betrayed and his reputation 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 speak 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 so full of ironies sometimes.

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 his 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.

"When the time comes, this will no longer be a matter of one or two small goals!"

By then, the profits of pharmaceutical companies alone may even be able to support the post-war reconstruction of North Borneo!
  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)