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Selman Waksman

1888 - 1973

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Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish American inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, he discovered several antibiotics (and introduced the modern sense of that word to name them), and he introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others. The proceeds earned from the licensing of his patents funded a foundation for microbiological research, which established the Waksman Institute of Microbiology located at the Rutgers University Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey (USA). In 1952, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "ingenious, systematic, and successful studies of the soil microbes that led to the discovery of streptomycin." Waksman and his foundation later were sued by Albert Schatz, one of his Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Selman Waksman has received more than 358,285 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Selman Waksman is the 75th most popular physician (down from 72nd in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Physician.

Selman Waksman was a microbiologist that discovered streptomycin, which is a drug that can be used to treat tuberculosis.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Selman Waksman ranks 75 out of 726. Before him are Herophilos, Elias Lönnrot, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frederick Banting, Stanley Cohen, and Jacques Rogge. After him are August Krogh, Theodor Morell, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Elizabeth Blackwell, Peter Canisius, and Albert Sabin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Selman Waksman ranks 31. Before him are Friedrich Fromm, Johannes Itten, T. S. Eliot, Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, and F. W. Murnau. After him are Friedrich Olbricht, Andrei Tupolev, Anton Makarenko, Inge Lehmann, Abul Kalam Azad, and Katherine Mansfield. Among people deceased in 1973, Selman Waksman ranks 33. Before him are Gabriel Marcel, Semyon Budyonny, Anna Magnani, Ragnar Frisch, Hans Albert Einstein, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen. After him are Jacques Maritain, Karl Ziegler, Luis Carrero Blanco, Walter Rudolf Hess, Gerard Kuiper, and Jean-Pierre Melville.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Selman Waksman ranks 81 out of 1,365. Before him are Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Larisa Latynina (1934), Nachman of Breslov (1772), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883). After him are Anacharsis (-700), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), and Anton Makarenko (1888).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Ukraine

Among physicians born in Ukraine, Selman Waksman ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Dal (1801), Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Aleksandr Bogomolets (1881), Grunya Sukhareva (1891), Maryna Poroshenko (1962), Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), Łucja Frey (1889), Hélène Sparrow (1891), and Ben Klassen (1918).

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