Here's an article that's been in-the-making for more than 60 years.
NY Times
PETER PRINGLE
6/12/12
Notebooks Shed Light on an Antibiotic’s Contested Discovery
Quote:
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — For as long as archivists at Rutgers University could remember,
a small cardboard box marked with the letter W in black ink had sat unopened in a dusty corner
of the special collections of the Alexander Library. Next to it were 60 sturdy archive boxes of papers,
a legacy of the university’s most famous scientist: Selman A. Waksman,
who won a Nobel Prize in 1952 for the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic to cure tuberculosis.
The 60 boxes contained details of how streptomycin was found
— and also of the murky story behind it, a vicious legal battle
between Dr. Waksman and his graduate student Albert Schatz over who deserved credit.
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I won't spoil the denouement on page 2 of the article.