Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz
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Getting His Due … Finally
Albert Schatz, Department of Soil Chemistry and Bacteriology
Selman Waksman, Department of Soil Chemistry and Bacteriology
Butterflies, Booze, but not Bacteria — What NJ’s Last-Minute Laws Cover
Selman Waksman – Waksman Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Does N.J. need a state germ? Fuhgeddaboudit
Selman Waksman; Albert Schatz – Waksman Institute
Review: ‘Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine,’ by William Rosen
Selman Waksman
In Memoriam: H. Boyd Woodruff (AG’43)
H. Boyd Woodruff (AG’43) Distinguished research scholar H. Boyd Woodruff passed away on January 19, 2017 at the age of 99. Woodruff studied under Selman Waksman as a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology and discovered the first antibiotic in Rutgers history, actinomycin, which has been used in treating Wilms Disease, a childhood cancer. […]
Eliminate the TB Scourge
It’s 1 a.m. A young mother approaches me during my hospital shift. She asks if her 2-year-old son will survive the night. He has been given a diagnosis of severe tuberculous meningitis, months after her husband was found to have drug-resistant TB… In…
John and Anne Gerwig Director’s Fund Award – John Gerwig’s Remarks
Dr. John L. Gerwig, Director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension 1962 – 1992, gave the following remarks on May 4, 2016 at the first awards presented to Cooperative Extension Faculty from the John and Anne Gerwig Director’s Fund. “I learned long ago that if you make short comments that they can’t be all wrong. First I […]
Revolutionary for 250 Years: Waksman, Schatz and the Discovery of Streptomycin
Martin Hall on the George H. Cook campus was the site of the discovery of streptomycin – the first effective treatment for tuberculosis – by Rutgers revolutionary Selman Waksman and his graduate student Albert Schatz. In 1952, Waksman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his “ingenious, systematic and successful studies of the […]
Prof. Joan W. Bennett Wins 2015 SIMB Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award
Joan W. Bennett, professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, received the 2015 SIMB Waksman Outstanding Teaching Award, funded by the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) in Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 2-6. This SIMB award is named for Nobel Laureate Selman Waksman, […]
