American Decades
"Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization"
Lecture
By: Selman A. Waksman
Date: December 12, 1952
Source: Waksman, Selman A. "Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization." Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1952. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1952/waksman-lecture... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed December 18, 2002).
About the Author: Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973) was born in Ukraine and became a U.S. citizen in 1916. A microbiologist at Rutgers University's New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, he was professor of microbiology at the University and director of the Rutgers Institute of Microbiology from 1949 to 1958. His discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin won him the 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology.
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1950's Science and Technology Primary Sources
- The H Bomb
- "Should America Build the H Bomb?"
- "Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization"
- "The Biologic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid"
- "A Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions"
- "The Atom for Progress and Peace"
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
- Conquest of the Moon
- "Polio Vaccine Evaluation Results"
- "Transistor Technology Evokes New Physics"
- The Computer and the Brain
- The Astronomical Universe
- The Control of Fertility
- "Mutable Loci in Maize"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
