Vintage Photo of Woman Microbiologist Tests for Nobel Prize-Winning Antibiotic, Cure for Tuberculosis

[Women in Science], Rutgers

Original Photo

Woman Microbiologist at Rutgers Tests for Antibiotic. Original silver gelatin print press photograph. 8 x 10 in. No date, but 1940's-1950'. Typed press caption pasted on back: “Streptomycin—Life-Saving Drug: Testing for Streptomycin, the antibiotic substance whose microorganism is obtained from soil. A member of the Research Staff in Microbiology adding solution being tested to steel cylinders on an agar medium.” Streptomycin was discovered in 1943 at Rutgers University; it found extensive application in the treatment of numerous infectious diseases and was the first antibiotic cure for tuberculosis (TB). In 1952 Waksman was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic active against tuberculosis." It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. The World Health Organization classifies it as critically important for human medicine. Original press caption pasted to verso, filing stamps and pencil annotations on verso. Light handling dents. In very good condition.

Item #17112

Price: $85.00