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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 ...
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
May 24, 2005 · Selman Waksman's enduring fame rests on the discovery of streptomycin, "the culminating point of a painstaking search for antimicrobial agents produced by actinomycetes…" 7 These are a group of filamentous microbes, closely related to bacteria in size and physiology but similar to fungi in structure.
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
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.
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Waksman always considered 1950 the “darkest” year of his life. Selman Waksman: From Tsarist Russia to New Jersey Selman Abraham Waksman was born and raised in the small town of Novaya-Priluka in Ukraine in 1888. The black earth of the steppes was highly productive, and while the Waksmans were town dwellers, the fertility of the soil no ...
