The pattern must be opened!
Since we are standing on the shoulders of the giants of history, we must take bigger steps.
Although taking big steps may easily lead to mistakes. But... 10,000 years is too long, we must seize the day.
Just when George decided to take the first step, Hedrick had already arrived at the Mayo Hospital. In the basement of the Mayo Hospital, he found the person he was looking for.
"Mr. Schatz, this is the condition that Jisheng Pharmaceutical offers you, a salary of $500 per month, and a..."
Looking at the closed basement, Hedrick said.
"A laboratory with better conditions than here."
"Sir, the reason I chose to be here is because there is no protective equipment, in order to avoid the spread of tuberculosis bacteria and harm to other people. After all, some people have been infected with tuberculosis, so I can only work alone in the underground laboratory to prevent infecting others."
Albert Schatz's answer impressed Hedrick.
"I understand. 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 a doctoral thesis to publish, 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 quit the military hospital because of a back injury. The reason why you came back to Waxman's laboratory is because there is no better choice. Now, the opportunity is 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 came from a poor family, this contract is undoubtedly full of temptation. 500 US dollars, even Professor Waxman's salary is not so high.
"Let me think about it..."
In fact, most of the time, ordinary people have no choice. For Albert Schatz, who came from a poor farmer's family in Connecticut, he knew what he should do.
...
"Well, another Nobel Prize is in hand!"
After receiving Hedrick's telegram, George leaned back in his chair and whistled softly.
"What a pity, is a Nobel Prize without a scandal still a Nobel Prize?"
Who is Albert Schatz?
He is the real inventor of streptomycin.
However, his credit was stolen, which is the most famous academic scandal in academic history.
Albert Schatz, who studied soil biology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, did not study soil biology because he was passionate about soil, but because he had no better choice. He felt that studying soil biology could at least be useful on the farm.
In 1943, professional knowledge gave Schatz an intuition that there would be new antibiotics in soil microorganisms that would go hand in hand 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 can kill Gram-negative bacteria - streptomycin. This was one of the most significant breakthroughs in microbiology in the 20th century.
Schatz's instructor Selman Waksman immediately noticed his discovery. Because he was afraid of infection and never dared to enter the laboratory, he immediately took charge of the clinical trials of the drug. During this period, he asked Schatz to sign an agreement to transfer the patent rights to Rutgers University. Later, the young Schatz discovered that Waksman took 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 Selman Waksman.
Waksman not only stole the glory, but also the money. Although Schatz opposed applying for a patent for this drug that is beneficial to humans, at the insistence of his mentor, the two jointly applied for a patent to the US Patent Office and agreed to sell it to the University of Grasse for one dollar if the patent was obtained, that is, he would not get any economic benefits from this invention.
But Schatz never expected that the University of Grasse and Waksman reached a private agreement: 20% of the dividends belonged to Waksman himself.
In the following years, Waksman not only gained honors - including the Nobel Prize as the inventor of streptomycin in 1952, but also received a huge profit share of up to millions of dollars every year.
What could Schatz do when his original intention was betrayed and his reputation was stolen?
Unable to get any satisfactory results, Schatz finally sued Waksman and Rutgers University and won the case. In the settlement agreement, as the discoverer, he became a "co-discoverer" and received some royalties and honors, but the lawsuit itself ruined him: people thought it was a bad move to sue academic superiors.
In this way, Schatz, who should have won the Nobel Prize and huge wealth as the inventor of streptomycin, was hit by the entire academic community - academic cliques are not only in China. Not only did he lose his job, but even his papers were repeatedly rejected by mainstream magazines.
It was not until 20 years after Waksman's death that the American Society for Microbiology made a belated effort to invite Schatz to give a speech to the society on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of streptomycin in order to make up for the mistake. In recognition of his achievements, the society awarded Schatz the highest award: the Selman Waksman Medal.
Life is sometimes full of irony.
This is definitely the biggest scandal in academic history. The mentor stole the student's work and won the Nobel Prize and the honor of "the father of antibiotics", but what about the real inventor?
Being hit, being excluded, 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 patent will also belong to the company.
How much profit will streptomycin bring to the company before the patent expires?
George said with a smile on his lips.
"By then, this will not be a matter of one or two small goals!"
By then, the profits of the pharmaceutical company alone may even be enough to support the post-war reconstruction of North Borneo!
Once again, George's mind flew to the land in Southeast Asia, even if it was a remote and poor place with only a few hundred thousand people, and even if they knew nothing about it, so what.
This piece of meat must be eaten no matter what!