Selman
Waksman was
born in Priluka, Russia in 1888. He emigrated
to the United States and attended Rutgers University, where he graduated
in 1915.
Waksman's researches into the breaking down of organic substances
by micro-organisms and into antibiotics led to his discovery of streptomycin
in 1943.
Waksman, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1952, wrote several
books including Enzymes (1926),
Principles of Soil Microbiology
(1938) and the autobiographical, My Life
with the Microbes (1954).
Selman Waksman died in 1973.
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