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3 days ago · Selman Waksman made foundational contributions to marine microbiology during summers at Woods Hole. He was also awarded a Nobel Prize for his work (at Rutgers) on the systematic search for antibiotics (leading to streptomycin, the royalties from which enabled him to establish the Foundation for Microbiology).
- Karen Yee
- 2018
May 8, 2024 · Bacitracin. Erythromycin. *Penicillin. *Streptomycin (see also Presidential File of Selman Waksman, Part 13 II-AR) Other Compounds. Awards, Nobel (for ASM-sponsored or -administered awards, see Records of the Society: Awards ) *Biotechnology (see also Harlyn O. Halvorson Papers) Comics/ Humor.
- Karen Yee
- 2018
May 23, 2024 · It was Schatz, sequestered in a basement laboratory, who began to test soil samples from as many places as he could muster. With Waksman’s connections to Britain, and Schatz’s ambition for a Nobel, the two formed a dynamic duo. What they uncovered were loads of bacterial examples.
3 days ago · 13 April, 1942: The ASM's "War Committee on Bacteriology" is appointed by President Selman Waksman. See Newsletter of the SAB (NLSAB) 8:2, p. 2: "The duties of the Committee will be threefold: 1) It will act as a clearinghouse for research in the fields of Medical, Industrial and Agricultural Bacteriology, as well as in General Microbiology ...
- Karen Yee
- 2018
May 13, 2024 · Alexander Fleming. In full: Sir Alexander Fleming. Born: August 6, 1881, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland. Died: March 11, 1955, London, England (aged 73) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1945) Subjects Of Study: lysozyme. wound. Top Questions. What is Alexander Fleming famous for? How did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
May 25, 2024 · Selman Waksman: François Mauriac: Albert Schweitzer: 1953 Frits Zernike: Hermann Staudinger: Hans Adolf Krebs; Fritz Albert Lipmann: Winston Churchill: George Marshall: 1954 Max Born; Walther Bothe: Linus Pauling: John Franklin Enders; Frederick Chapman Robbins; Thomas Huckle Weller: Ernest Hemingway: United Nations High Commissioner for ...
May 21, 2024 · The 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Waksman "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis." Archive highlights: Selman A. Waksman papers (P-97)
