In 1952, Rutgers University Professor Selman Waksman won the Nobel Prize for developing Streptomycin, a powerful antibiotic that cured tuberculosis. His 23-year old graduate student, Albert Schatz, claimed to have been the first to isolate the bacterium that produced this drug in August, 1943. Schatz and Waksman applied for a patent, but the royalties all went to Waksman. Schatz sued and won a share of the royalties, but Waksman never acknowledged the part he played in the discovery.
