Selman A. Waksman
Selman A. Waksman
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952
Name: Selman Abraham Waksman
Birth: 22 July 1888, Priluka (now Nova Pryluka), Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Death: 16 August 1973, Hyannis, MA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Prize motivation: “for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis”
Field: anti-bacterial agents, bacteriology
Prize share: 1/1
“The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. Ecclesiasticus, XXXVIII , 4”
Biography
Books
Publications
Patents
Albert Schatz, co-discoverer of streptomycin
Videos
Biography
Biographical memoir of Selman Abraham Waksman by Rollin D. Hotchkiss, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. 2003. 25 pages.
Selman Waksman and Antibiotics, American Chemical Society, May 24, 2005, 4 pages
On Selman Waksman from Chemical Heritage Foundation. 3 pages.
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