Selman Waksman

✶July 22, 1888

†August 16, 1973

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About their life

Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born 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. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

American biochemist and microbiologist (1888–1973)

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