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With the removal of the danger lurking in infectious diseases and epidemics, society can face a better future, can prepare for a time when other diseases not now subject to therapy will be brought under control. Let us hope that in contributing the antibiotics, the microbes will have done their part to make the world a better place to live in.

Selman Waksman

Good scientists use research plans merely as outlines to begin their investigations and are ready to give them up once they are not justified by actual findings. Experimental designs tend to give rise to "team research", which serves a purpose in developing and applying ideas; it rarely produces new ideas.

Selman Waksman

The highest scientific award and honor presented to me the day before yesterday gives me the opportunity to summarize briefly the discovery and utilization of streptomycin for disease control, notably in the treatment of tuberculosis, the "Great White Plague" of man.

Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman

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Born: July 22, 1888

Died: August 16, 1973 (aged 85)

Bio: Selman Abraham Waksman was a Ukrainian-born, Jewish-American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances largely into organisms that live in soil and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics.

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