The highest scientific award and honor presented to me the day before yesterday gives me the opportunity to summarize briefly the discovery and utilization of streptomycin for disease control, notably in the treatment of tuberculosis, the "Great White Plague" of man.

Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Nobel lecture for award received in 1952, Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties and Utilization, 1964