Russian-born American biochemist and microbiologist who discovers more than twenty antibiotics including streptomycin for which he received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Waksman also coined the word "antibiotics".
Selman Waksman was born on 22 July, 1888
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