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Selman Abraham Waksman was born and raised in the small town of Novaya-Priluka 3 in Ukraine on July 22, 1888 (July 8 according to the old Russian calendar). Waksman described his birthplace as "a bleak town, a mere dot in the boundless steppes." In summer the endless fields produced wheat, rye, barley, and oats.
Selman Abraham Waksman. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952. Born: 22 July 1888, Priluka, Russian Empire (now Nova Pryluka, Ukraine) Died: 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 ...
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The Chemical Nature of Actinomycin, an Anti-microbial Substance Produced by Actinomyces Antibioticus (Waksman, S. A., and Tishler, M. (1942) J. Biol. Chem. 142, 519-528) Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973) was born in the rural Ukrainian town of Novaya Priluka. The town and its nearby villages were surrounded by a rich black soil that supported ...
- Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill
- 2004
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 ...
- Byron H. Waksman (1919–2012)
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 ...
At the end of 2012, the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences of Rutgers University held a major symposium to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Professor Selman A. Waksman's being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1952. Dr. Waksman's studies had led to the discovery of streptomycin, a new antibiotic.
