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Selman Waksman was born on July 22, 1888, to [[Jewish]] parents, in Nova Pryluka, [[Kiev Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]],<ref name="foundationhistory">{{cite web |url=http://www.waksman-foundation.org/html/foundation_history.html |title=The Foundation and Its History |publisher=waksman-foundation.org (No further authorship information available) |access-date=January 11, 2007 |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> now [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], Ukraine. He was the son of Fradia (London) and Jacob Waksman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1952/waksman-bio.html|title=Selman A. Waksman - Biographical|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref> He immigrated to the United States in 1910, shortly after receiving his diploma from the Fifth Gymnasium in [[Odessa]], and became a [[Naturalization|naturalized American citizen]] six years later.

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. 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 Dr [[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 then appointed as a research fellow at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he was awarded his [[doctor of philosophy]] in biochemistry in 1918.