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Selman Abraham Waksman
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Selman Abraham Waksman

Inventor · born July 22, 1888 · died 1973

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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.

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  1. ~60Received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1948
  2. ~62Received the Leeuwenhoek Medal1950
  3. ~64Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1952

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