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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 ...
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Selman Waksman. 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. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at ...
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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.”.
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- Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Jan; 80(1): 2-8.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 was awarded to Selman Abraham Waksman "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952.
Waksman received a Nobel Prize in 1952 for "ingenious, systematic and successful studies of the soil microbes" that led to the discovery of streptomycin. Acknowledgments. Adapted for the internet from “Selman Waksman and Antibiotics,” produced by the National Historic Chemical Landmarks program of the American Chemical Society in 2005. Back ...
Apr 15, 2024 · microorganism. soil. streptomycin. Selman Abraham Waksman (born July 22, 1888, Priluka, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Pryluky, Ukraine]—died August 16, 1973, Hyannis, Massachusetts, U.S.) 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 ...
