Waksman and his students, in their laboratory at Rutgers University, established the first screening protocols to detect antimicrobial agents produced by microorganisms. This deliberate search for ...

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 ...

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 results in ...

Last week Scientist Waksman (Ph.D. University of California) announced a new, promising, greyish-colored antibiotic which he called neomycin. Like streptomycin, it is derived from actinomycetes. a ...

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 ...

But as Sir Alexander long ago predicted, another mold-produced antibiotic—streptomycin (TIME, Jan. 29)—has given promise of succeeding where penicillin fails. ... Dr. Selman A. Waksman, ...

In 1943, another graduate student in Waksman's lab, Albert Schatz, began a project on the antibiotic properties of Streptomyces griseus, and from this work he identified streptomycin.Waksman and ...

STREPTOMYCIN, an antibiotic agent obtained from certain strains of Actinomyces griseus, was first described by Schatz, Bugie and Waksman 1 in 1944. Immediate interest was attracted to this agent ...

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 ...

The streptomycin unit has been defined by Robinson and his associates 4 as that quantity of the antibiotic agent that inhibits the ... Bugie, E., and Waksman, S. A., Streptomycin, substance ...

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 ...