Born: 5 October 1920, United States
Died: 10 April 2001
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Elizabeth Gregory
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
In 1944, Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie and Selman Waksman published their discovery of streptomycin, yet when Waksman and Schatz patented it, her name was left off the application. Her daughter later stated that Bugie had been told it wasn’t important for her to be included in the patent because she would later get married. Both Schatz and Bugie were excluded when Waksman alone won the Nobel in 1952.