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Our History. Dr. Selman Waksman made significant contributions to society and Rutgers. In 1944, his team discovered several "antibiotics." In 1951, from the royalties of their patents, he created the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology and funded the construction of the Institute of Microbiology on Rutgers, Busch Campus in Piscataway, NJ.
1 de ene. de 2003 · Selman Waksman. The son of a poor coppersmith, 1 Waksman was born in Priluka, the Ukraine on July 22, 1888. Today, little remains of the small town, located 200 km from Kiev, the capital of Russian Ukraine. As a young man, Waksman emigrated to the United States, where he later became a renowned scientist.
Selman Abraham Waksman (Priluki, Ucrania, 2 de julio de 1888 - Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1973), Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina en 1952. Cursó estudios secundarios en la ciudad de Odesa. Se trasladó a Estados Unidos en 1910, donde se matriculó en la Universidad de Rutgers, Nueva Jersey, para estudiar Agricultura.
18 de abr. de 2016 · But by the early 1950s, TB deaths had dropped sharply—due in large part to research begun years before by a Rutgers soil microbiologist named Selman Waksman. Waksman’s work in what was then the Rutgers College of Agriculture eventually led to the discovery of at least 20 antibiotics, including streptomycin, the first effective treatment for TB.
Selman Abraham Waksman was born and raised in the rural Ukrainian town of Novaya Priluka. Remaining in that remote town on the steppes until age 20, he certainly could not have dreamed of the triumphs and obstacles that lay ahead. His father made a modest living tending and rent-ing some small houses he owned.
Waksman and another seven percent divided among all who participated in the early work leading to the develop-ment of streptomycin. (Waksman later reduced his share to five percent) Although he agreed to the settlement, Waksman always considered 1950 the “darkest” year of his life. Selman Waksman: From Tsarist Russia to New Jersey
Selman Abraham Waksman coined the word antibiotic. “He came up with it to describe naturally occurring microorganisms, in contrast to chemically produced compounds, that inhibited or destroyed other living microbes”, explains his granddaughter Nan Waksman Schanbacher, vice president and chair of the board for the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology (Merion Station, PA, USA).
