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1888-1973
The Discoverer of Streptomycin
Painstaking Research.
Antibiotics from the Earth.
Clinical Experimentation.
Nobel Prize Winner.
The production of streptomycin grew into a great industry. For his ingenious, systematic, and successful study of microorganisms of the soil, which resulted in the discovery of one of the wonder-drug antibiotics, Waksman was awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology in 1952.Sources:
James Bordley III and A. McGehee Harvey, Two Centuries of American Medicine (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1976), pp. 456-460;
Selman A. Waksman, My Life with the Microbes (New York: Simon 6c Schuster, 1954).
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