Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952

Selman Abraham Waksman

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 was awarded to Selman Abraham Waksman "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"

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