TIL that the first cure for tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed by a 23 year old grad student at Rutgers, Albert Schatz. It was also effective against other penicillin resistant infections and the first life saved with the drug was a young lieutenant wounded in Italy named Bob Dole.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2012-12-31/html/CREC-2012-12-31-pt1-PgE2023-4.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15pmwa4/til_that_the_first_cure_for_tuberculosis/