Selman Abraham Waksman
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1952for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
- Citizenship
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Soviet Union 
United States 
Russian Empire - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 7/22/1888
- place of birth
- Nova Pryluka
- date of death
- 8/16/1973
- place of death
- Woods Hole
- Lived
- 85 years
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- educated at
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- University of California, Berkeley
- academic major: biochemistry
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1918
- Rutgers University
- academic major: agriculture
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science
- end time: 1915
- University of California, Berkeley
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1942
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- National Academy of Sciences
- employer
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- New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
- Rutgers University
- occupation
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- physician
- inventor
- chemist
- pharmacologist
- university teacher
- botanist
- biochemist
- microbiologist
- autobiographer
- field of work
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- microbiology
- biochemistry
- doctoral student
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- Elizabeth Bugie