Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waksman's slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on. In the past ten years he and his associates at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University, New Brunswick have examined more than 100,000 cultures of organisms found in the soil of nearby farms...
...Fish. Dr. Waksman, often called the dean of U.S. researchers in antibiotics, was born of Jewish parents in Priluki, a Russian peasant village near Kiev. He came to the U.S. at 22. In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went...
Selman Waksman is a soil expert, but he cannot find time for gardening; he is an authority on marine microorganisms, but he never goes fishing. He plugs away at his molds, has written some 300 scientific papers and half a dozen books, spends much of his time away from the laboratory poring over scientific books. He occasionally reads a novel, but is bored unless it has "social values." ("Relations of man to man," he says, "are as important as relations of microbe to microbe...
...years ago he made up his mind to "reorient" himself "and start all over again." He quit his designing job, joined a cooperative farm colony in Suffolk, England, and spent a year on the soil. When he got back to Belfast he found he had left his surrealist props under a haystack, along with the prissily smooth painting methods of his past...
...style has often changed since then," he said, "but my real conversion to landscape painting goes back to the day I returned to French soil after four war years in the U.S. For a long time I doubted myself too much to paint without trying to prove anything, but with age one often fulfills the dreams of youth, paradoxical as that may seem. We grow more innocent, more detached...