Word: selman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...
...Selman A. Waksman, 60, Russian-born Rutgers University biologist, discoverer of streptomycin, and Dr. Rene J. Dubos, 47, French-born Rockefeller Institute biologist, honored jointly for their pioneer work in antibiotics...
...multicolored robes filed across the "front campus" before famed old Nassau Hall. There, 6,000 spectators, seated in shadows under Princeton's elms ("An adorable place, is it not?" Woodrow Wilson used to say), cheered whenever they recognized a celebrity. There were, besides Home-Towner Albert Einstein, Selman Abraham Waksman, the discoverer of streptomycin...
Grisein. The $5,000 Passano Foundation Award (kicked in by Williams & Wilkins of Baltimore, medical publishers) went to Russian-born Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 59, microbiologist of Rutgers and the New Jersey Agricultural Station. Dr. Waksman is certainly a leading U.S.-authority on antibiotics. His best-known discovery (1945) was streptomycin, the antibiotic which has shown most promise in the fight against tuberculosis. Early this year he persuaded his favorite mold (Actinomyces griseus) to produce another antibiotic (TIME, Feb. 10). The new one, "grisein," teams up efficiently with streptomycin (in the test tube) to fight a variety of stubborn bacteria...
...Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin's discoverer, produced a sister drug named grisein from the same soil organism. Grisein's job: to knock out (with the help of streptomycin) bacteria that develop a resistance to streptomycin alone...