The Ballad of Schatz and Waksman

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Among the great exponents of science

are those who grapple hard for glory

and those who find it snatched away,

with names confined to dusty books,

brief mentions, at best;

and few, if any, hear their story:

 

Albert Schatz, for example,

was entranced by soil;

he mulched his way through masses of muck

and found a microbe he supposed

could halt the charge of tuberculosis.

Within a matter of months,

a saviour appeared: streptomycin.

 

His supervisor, one Selman Waksman,

assumed control of the clinical trials.

Waksman received a Nobel Prize,

and as for Schatz,

long after Waksman’s death,

he earned a kind of mangled amends:

the American Society for Microbiology

bestowed on him its highest award:

the Selman Waksman medal.

Since you’re telling a tale - a didactic one at that - a ballad is fit for the task
But a ballad should have rhyming lines in stanzas that can be set to music. It is meant to be sung.
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