Selman A. Waksman

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture December 12, 1952

Streptomycin: Background, Isolation, Properties, and Utilization

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

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