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Germ Warfare

Selman Waksman

Posted December 19, 2007 by Will Hughes

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While investigating soil microbiology and the medicinal properties of soil organisms at Rutgers, Waksman discovered streptomycin and other antibiotics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1952.

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