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Germ Warfare

by Will Hughes   
Posted December 19, 2007

Selman Waksman

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.