Life of Prof. Albert Schatz Reads: Farming to Science to Farming In a copyrighted Seven. Arts Feature article, Tina Levitan tells the 'story of Prof. Albert Schatz, one of today's outstand- ing Jewish scientists. A true New Englander, born at Norwich, - Conn., who scorns the crowds and hustle bustle of New York City life, Prof. Schatz was co-discoverer of one of the most effective of the so-called "won- der drugs," streptomycin. The 31 - year - old scholar, whose father, Julius Schatz, was a Russian immigrant, at the age of four showed intense interest in every kind of plant life. While his father worked in the construc- tion line, young Albert cherished visits to his grandparents' farm in up-state Connecticut where he developed his love for nature. His family moved to Passaic, N.J. to give Albert the benefit of a good elementary and high school education, and they were not surprised to see their son enroll in Rutgers University's College of Agriculture. Here, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was the only member of his class to be accepted into Sigma Xi, highest honorary fraternity in the scientific field. Young Schatz enlisted in the Army Air Corps after gradua- tion and was assigned to the medical and sanitary bacteri- ology detachment. He saw that tuberculosis, cholera, coliti s, genito-urinary tract infections were caused by what medical science termed "the gram nega- tive• bacteria." Thus began a search for the drug that would accomplish what penicillin and sulphur drugs failed to cure. He re-entered Rutgers after his discharge to try to find other clues to the problem. In his col- lege courses he learned that the soil supplies the growth of mil- lions of microscopic plants. He tested endless numbers which would destroy germs in the body without killing body tissue. In a complicated growth called steptomyces griseus he found what he had been looking for. He traced how streptomycin acts, why it inhibits bacteria, how it is produced and how to produce maximum amounts cheaply. In 1944 his discovery was an- nounced in a professional jour- nal, and in 1945 he was awarded a PhD degree by the university for his research thesis on Strep- tomycin. Prof. Schatz now teaches bio- UJA-Keystone of Freedom THE JEWISH NEWS-97 Friday, September 28, 1951 he still looks forward to aban- logy at Brooklyn College after having served as a bio-chemist in Albany, the Sloan, Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. His first love, however, is still the soil, and with his wife, Vi- vian, daughter of a school prin- cipal and young daughter, Diane, BAKING CO. 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