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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?
Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 60, Russian-born Rutgers University biologist, discoverer of streptomycin, and Dr. Rene J. Dubos, 47, French-born Rockefeller Institute biologist, honored jointly for their pioneer work in antibiotics.
RENE J. DUBOS
Researchers, who have fumbled and bumbled for lack of an effective technique, can now "do an experiment a day instead of two a year," according to Dr. Dubos. They can also diagnose new TB cases, where X rays are useless, in a few days instead of two months. Previous methods...