Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman (1969) - Successes and Failures in Search for Antibiotics

„Man of the soil“, Time magazine titled a story on Selman Waksman in April 1949, and this headline hit the mark. The rich black soil around his rural Ukrainian hometown was an early inspiration and lasting memory for Waksman, who immigrated to the United States from Tsarist Russia at the age of 22 in 1910