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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952

"for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"
Selman Abraham Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman
USA
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
b. 1888
(in Priluka, Ukraine, Russia)
d. 1973
 
 
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