1888 - 1973
Selman Waksman American Biologist
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First Name |
Selman
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Last Name |
Waksman
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Birthday |
22nd July, 1888
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Birthplace |
Pryluky, near Kiev, Ukraine
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Died |
16th August, 1973
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Place of Death |
Woods Hole, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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Religion |
Jewish
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Ethnicity |
White
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation |
Biologist
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Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Russian Empire-born Jewish-American inventor, 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 Rutgers University for four decades, he discovered a number of antibiotics (and introduced the modern sense of that word to name them), and he introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others. The proceeds earned from the licensing of his patents funded a foundation for microbiological research, which established the Waksman Institute of Microbiology located on the Rutgers University Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey (USA). In 1952, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "ingenious, systematic and successful studies of the soil microbes that led to the discovery of streptomycin." Waksman and his foundation later were sued by Albert Schatz, one of his PhD students and first discoverer of streptomycin, for minimizing Schatz's role in the discovery of streptomycin.
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