Selman Waksman was a Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist at Rutgers University who coined the term antibiotic and led the laboratory whose systematic screening of soil microorganisms produced streptomycin, isolated by his doctoral student Albert Schatz in 1943, the first drug effective against tuberculosis. Waksman received sole public credit and the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery; Schatz's role, and Waksman's own handling of the resulting patent royalties, became a documented and litigated dispute this atlas already records on the Discovery of Streptomycin entity's own discoverer fact.
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What research earned Selman Waksman the 1952 Nobel Prize?
His soil research enabled the discovery of streptomycin.
Waksman was a Ukraine-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist. His research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics, and for this work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Schatz was Waksman's doctoral student and isolated streptomycin in Waksman's laboratory; see Dissent 721 on the Discovery of Streptomycin entity for the credit dispute between them.
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Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July [O.S. 10 July] 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.
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First isolated on October 19, 1943, by Albert Schatz in Selman Abraham Waksman laboratory
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Four Bacterial Discoveries, Four Fights Over Who Gets Credit
Selman Waksman, who alone received the 1952 Nobel Prize for streptomycin
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