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Dr. Waksman (rhymes with boxman) had become the discoverer of streptomycin, which ranks next to penicillin among the antibiotics and is the first of these “wonder drugs” to show hopeful ...

Dr. Selman A. Waksman, 60, discoverer of streptomycin and neomycin (TIME, April 4), has dreamed for years of better facilities for hunting new antibiotics and for teaching others to join in the ...

It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis. Dr. Waksman’s slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on.

But as Sir Alexander long ago predicted, another mold-produced antibiotic—streptomycin (TIME ... The drug’s discoverer, Dr. Selman A. Waksman, reports that when used before an abdominal ...

There were fresh reinforcements for the “wonder” drug streptomycin (against which some bugs are fighting back): ¶ Dr. Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin’s discoverer, produced a sister drug ...

All patients treated with streptomycin were hospitalized at the Massachusetts General Hospital or the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. ¶ They were selected on the basis of the infecting ...

Selman Waksman is credited with organizing the research program on soil bacteria at Rutgers University in New Jersey that led to the identification of the groundbreaking antibiotic streptomycin ...

IN a recent treatise on the actinomycetes Waksman 1 suggests that the glucosidic antibiotics, streptothricin, streptomycin and neomycin, are constituents of the cell wall of the organisms ...

Dr. Selman Waksman, Nobel Prize winner, discoverer of streptomycin and other anti-biotic drugs and long one of this country’s top microbiologists, will retire as director of the Rutgers ...