The scientist Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman

Living place: Ukraine

Birthday: 22-7-1888

Global rank: #72368

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Who is The scientist Selman Waksman?
Remembering to discover Streptomycin (used to cure tuberculosis) and more than twenty other powerful antibiotics, this microbiologist and biochemist was the 1952 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He taught at Rutgers University for nearly forty years.
Using proceeds from his patent antibiotics, he founded the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology.

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After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in agriculture from Rutgers University, he received his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Born in Ukraine to a Jewish family, he moved to the United States during his early adulthood years. His marriage to Deborah Mitnik resulted in a son, Multiple Sclerosis Research Byron Waksman.

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He and fellow Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming both discovered potent antibiotics (Fleming was involved in the discovery of penicillin)

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When was The scientist Selman Waksman born?
Selman Waksman was born in 22-7-1888, death year is , at the age of 136.
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Selman Waksman was born in . Là The scientist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Selman Waksman's global rank is 72368 and whose rank is 473 in list of famous The scientist.
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Events in 1888 and 22-7

Birthday Selman Waksman (22-7) in history

  • Day 22-7 year 1796: Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
  • Day 22-7 year 1933: Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.
  • Day 22-7 year 1934: John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
  • Day 22-7 year 1937: Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
  • Day 22-7 year 1975: Congress restored Confederate general Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.
  • Day 22-7 year 1990: Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France. A Minnesota native, Lemond was the first American to win the great French cycling race.
  • Day 22-7 year 2003: Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.
  • Day 22-7 year 2013: Prince George of Cambridge is born. He is the first child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
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