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Apr 15, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 ...
May 24, 2005 · 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 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 ...
Second, after Dr. Waksman's death, the Soil Science Department at Rutgers requested an official obituary, to be published in a major encyclopedia. The following is a small quotation taken from the rather long obituary: Selman Waksman was a prolific writer, publishing papers in a wide range of scientific journals, in several languages.
- H. Boyd Woodruff
- 10.1128/AEM.01143-13
- 2014
- Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Jan; 80(1): 2-8.
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 ...
SELMAN ABRAHAM WAKSMAN 7 The laboratory had now grown to be a rather popular training ground. In teaching the lore of soil microbiology Waksman had occasion to describe to the students the inhibitory inter-actions between organisms in the soil, probably presenting them as examples of “environmental” influence, complex and variable.
