Waksman, Selman Abraham

Claire EJ Herrick, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002945

1888–1973 Russian microbiologist, who isolated the antibiotic streptomycin from soil organisms.

Keywords: antibiotic; streptomycin; actinomycetes; tuberculosis; penicillin

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Further Reading
	book Waksman SA (1954) My Life With the Microbes. New York: Simon & Schuster.
	book Waksman SA (1964) The Brilliant and Tragic Life of W. M. W. Haffkine, Bacteriologist. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
	book Waksman SA (1965) The Conquest of Tuberculosis. Berkeley: University of California Press.
	Waksman SA (1962) Autobiographical sketch. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 6: 377–398.
	book Sourkes T (1967) Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology, 1901–1965, pp. 298–303. London: Abelard-Schuman.
	Wainwright M (1991) Streptomycin: Discovery and Resultant Controversy. History of Philosophy of the Life Sciences 13: 97–124.
	book Woodruff Boyd H (ed.) (1968) Scientific Contributions of Selman A. Waksman: Selected Articles Published in Honour of his Eightieth Birthday, July 22, 1968. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.