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| name = Selman Waksman
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| caption = Waksman in 1953
| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|7|22}}
| birth_place = Nova Pryluka, [[
| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|8|16|1888|7|22}}
| death_place = [[Woods Hole, Massachusetts]]
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'''Selman Abraham Waksman''' (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish
In 2005, Selman Waksman was granted an [[ACS National Historic Chemical Landmarks|ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark]] in recognition of the significant work of his lab in isolating more than 15 antibiotics, including streptomycin, which was the first effective treatment for [[tuberculosis]].<ref name= "ACSLandmarks">{{cite web | title = Selman Waksman and Antibiotics | work = National Historic Chemical Landmarks | publisher = [[American Chemical Society]] | url = http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/selmanwaksman.html | access-date = 2014-02-21 }}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Selman Waksman was born on July 22, 1888 (July 8 according to the old Russian calendar<ref>{{Cite web |title=Selman Waksman and Antibiotics - Landmark |url=https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/selmanwaksman.html |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=American Chemical Society |language=en}}</ref>), to [[Jewish]] parents, in Nova Pryluka, [[
Waksman attended [[Rutgers University|Rutgers College]] (now Rutgers University), where he graduated in 1915 with a [[Bachelor of Science]] in agriculture. He continued his studies at Rutgers, receiving a [[Master of Science]] the following year, in 1916. During his graduate study, he worked under [[J. G. Lipman]] at the [[School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Rutgers University)|New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station]] at Rutgers performing research in soil bacteriology. Waksman spent some months in 1915–1916 at the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] in [[Washington, DC]] under [[Charles Thom]], studying soil fungi.<ref name="Ryan_1993">{{cite book | last = Ryan | first = Frank | year = 1993 | title = The forgotten plague: how the battle against tuberculosis was won—and lost | publisher = Little, Brown | location = Boston | isbn = 978-0316763806 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/forgottenplagueh00ryan }}</ref>{{rp|44–48}} He was appointed as a research fellow at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and in 1918 he was awarded his [[doctor of philosophy]] in biochemistry.
==Career==
He joined the faculty at [[Rutgers University]] in the Department of
At Rutgers, Waksman's team discovered several antibiotics, including [[actinomycin]], [[clavacin]], streptothricin, [[streptomycin]], grisein, [[neomycin]], fradicin, [[candicidin]], candidin. Waksman co-discovered streptomycin with [[Albert Schatz (scientist)|Albert Schatz]]. Streptomycin was the first effective drug against gram-negative bacteria<ref name= "ACSLandmarks"/> and the first [[antibiotic]] used to cure [[tuberculosis]]. Waksman is credited with coining the term antibiotics
In 1931, Waksman organized the division of Marine Bacteriology at the [[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]] (WHOI) in addition to his task at Rutgers.<ref name="NobelBio" /> He was appointed
In 1951,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waksman-foundation.org/html/foundation_history.html |title=Foundation History |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142506/http://www.waksman-foundation.org/html/foundation_history.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> using half of his patent [[royalties]], Waksman created the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waksman-foundation.org/ |title=Waksman Foundation for Microbiology homepage |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111114428/http://waksman-foundation.org/ |archive-date=January 11, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> At a meeting of the board of trustees of the foundation, held in July 1951, he urged the building of a facility for work in microbiology, named the [[Waksman Institute of Microbiology]], which is located on the [[Busch Campus (Rutgers University)|Busch Campus]] of Rutgers University in [[Piscataway, New Jersey]]. The foundation's first president
==Research==
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== See also ==
* [[List of Jewish Nobel laureates]]
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