The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952
Awarded on: 1952-10-23
"for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
Affiliations:
- Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Selman Abraham Waksman
Born: 1888-07-22 in Priluka, Russian Empire (now Nova Pryluka, Ukraine)
Gender: male
Field: American biochemist and microbiologist (1888–1973)
Biography
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.