Word: selman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, it was announced that Dr. Selman A. Waksman, winner of the 1952 Nobel prize for medicine, had established a fellowship in microbiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Reho-voth, Israel in memory of the late President Chaim Weizmann...
Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949), 64, for his discovery of streptomycin...
Other companies did, and got into penicillin faster. But Merck got a head start with the next antibiotic, streptomycin. When Rutgers' Dr. Selman Waksman found that his beloved soil bacteria had made something that killed many germs which penicillin did not affect, he took the culture to Rahway. Though half a dozen companies are making streptomycin today, the best guess is that Merck microbes, in their own temple of vats at Elkton, Va., make 40% of the U.S. output...
...Selman A. Waksman, who made enough money as co-discoverer of streptomycin to finance a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University (TIME, May 16, 1949), last week turned over half ($40,000 a year) of his remaining royalties to a new foundation. Its purpose: to support professorships and fellowships, finance the publication of technical papers and books, sponsor scientific meetings, and help in the development of microbiological discoveries for practical use in all parts of the free world...
...researchers who worked together for seven years to discover the wonder-drug streptomycin, and then had a falling-out last year (TIME, March 20), finally patched up their difference in a New Jersey court. With the approval of Judge E. Thomas Schettino, Rutgers University's famed Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud...