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Waksman
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Waks·man  (wksmn), Selman Abraham 1888-1973.
Russian-born American microbiologist. He won a 1952 Nobel Prize for discovering the antibiotic streptomycin.

Waksman [ˈwæksmən]
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(Biographies / Waksman, Selman Abraham (1888-1973) M, USnational of birth: Russian, SCIENCE: biologist) Selman Abraham. 1888-1973, US microbiologist, born in Russia. He discovered streptomycin: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1952


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Selman Waksman (see Figure 5) who studied peat soils early in his career indicated that addition of calcium carbonate to soils favors the development of native actinomycetes such as the Streptomyces genera (Waksman 1967 and Waksman and Purvis 1932).
She was elected to the American Philosophical Society and received the Selman Waksman Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
it is named after the late Selman Waksman, a former Rutgers professor and graduate who won the Nobel Prize in 1952 for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.
 
 
 
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