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Selman Abraham Waksman

nobel prize for medicine


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Selman Abraham Waksman
Full Name
of the recipient		Selman Abraham Waksman
AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year of Award1952
Share in Award100.0%
Award Shared with
Motivation
for the Award		for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Place of BirthPriluka (now Nova Pryluka), Russian Empire (now known as Ukraine UKR)
Date of Birth22 July 1888
Age
at the time of Award		63 years
Place of DeathHyannis, MA, United States USA
Date of Death16 August 1973
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