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Selman Waksman

1888 - 1973

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Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) 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. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Waksman emigrated to the United States in 1910 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1916. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Selman Waksman is the 76th most popular physician (down from 75th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 81st 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 76 out of 726. Before him are Otto Loewi, Hilary of Poitiers, William P. Murphy, Christiaan Barnard, Ambroise Paré, and Johannes Fibiger. After him are Albert Szent-Györgyi, Jens Christian Skou, August Krogh, Eugen Bleuler, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Selman Waksman ranks 24. Before him are Carl Schmitt, C. V. Raman, Jean Monnet, Frits Zernike, Raymond Chandler, and Eugene O'Neill. After him are Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, F. W. Murnau, Johannes Itten, Friedrich Olbricht, and Andrei Tupolev. Among people deceased in 1973, Selman Waksman ranks 31. Before him are Anna Magnani, Ferdinand Schörner, Max Horkheimer, Ragnar Frisch, Pablo Casals, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen. After him are Semyon Budyonny, Gabriel Marcel, Walter Rudolf Hess, Víctor Jara, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Gerard Kuiper.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Selman Waksman ranks 60 out of 1,365. Before him are Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Moshe Sharett (1894), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), Georges Charpak (1924), and Levi Eshkol (1895). After him are David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), and Lazar Kaganovich (1893).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Ukraine

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

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