1950's Science and Technology | "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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