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...first antibiotic ever isolated by Nobel Prizewinner Selman Waksman was actinomycin. And just as Dr. Waksman hoped, the drug made strong medicine. It killed many man-killing microbes; unfortunately, it acted like a mankiller as well. It turned out to be a cytotoxin, a cell poison with the strange selective trick of attacking some cells more than others. So virulent that one milligram could kill a large chicken, actinomycin seemed far too dangerous ever to try on humans. Last week in Rome, pleasantly surprised, Dr. Waksman told the International Congress of Microbiology that German scientists have finally taken the sting...
...Nobel Prize in medicine was granted to Microbiologist Selman Waksman for his discovery...
...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...
...Jersey's Rutgers University, amid test tubes and agar dishes in which he is trying to extract still more antibiotics from soil molds, Waksman said: "I feel proud in justifying the ancient saying - I forget where it comes from - 'And from the earth shall come thy salvation...