Word: dubose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I am sorry that two items were omitted from your article . . . First, the names of the students who were most closely associated with the isolation of streptomycin in 1943-Miss Doris Jones, Dr. Albert Schatz, Miss Elizabeth Bugie and Dr. H. Christine Reilly. Second, the fact that Dr. Dubos did...
Says modest Dr. Waksman: "I get students from all over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos...
Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet?
Dubos took samples from patches of soil and noted which micro-organisms were present in them and how many of each kind. Then he made a brew of pneumonia bacteria and poured it on material from the patches. He repeated the experiment many times, watching for changes in the soil...
In spite of such failings, gramicidin touched off a chain reaction. Dubos announced its discovery in 1939. A group of British researchers heard about it and recalled Alexander Fleming's Penicillium notatum. The substance it secreted is penicillin. Ripples of excitement spread through the world's biological laboratories...