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Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish Ukrainian inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.
Selman Abraham Waksman was born in Priluka, near Kiev, Russia, on July 22nd, 1888, as the son of Jacob Waksman and Fradia London. He received his early education primarily from private tutors, and completed his school training in Odessa in an evening school and with private tutors. He obtained his matriculation diploma in 1910 from the Fifth ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Selman Abraham Waksman was a Ukrainian-born American biochemist who was one of the world’s foremost authorities on soil microbiology. After the discovery of penicillin, he played a major role in initiating a calculated, systematic search for antibiotics among microbes.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
During Dr. A. Wallgren's Nobel Prize presentation speech in 1952, he stated, “Selman Waksman, the Caroline Medical Institute has awarded you this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for your ingenious, systematic and successful studies of soil microbes that led to the discovery of streptomycin.”
- H. Boyd Woodruff
- 10.1128/AEM.01143-13
- 2014
- Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Jan; 80(1): 2-8.
May 24, 2005 · The American Chemical Society designated Selman Waksman’s isolation and development of antibiotics as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in a ceremony on May 24, 2005, at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, at Martin Hall on the Cook Campus and the Waksman Institute on the Busch Campus.
Selman Abraham Waksman was born and raised in the rural Ukrainian town of Novaya Priluka. Remaining in that remote town on the steppes until age 20, he certainly could not have dreamed of the triumphs and obstacles that lay ahead. His father made a modest living tending and rent-ing some small houses he owned.
The Waksman Microbiology Museum, on the George H. Cook campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is located in what was the laboratory in which streptomycin was discovered in 1943. It is named in honor of Dr. Selman Waksman, a prime mover in American soil microbiology who, with Jacob Lipman and Robert Starkey, elucidated the role ...
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