Selman Waksman and the Streptomycin Controversy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

• Episode: Selman Waksman and the Streptomycin Controversy
• Website: Stuff You Missed in History Class
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class.rss
• Duration: 00:30:16
• Published: 2013-07-17 19:56

An accomplished bacteriologist, Selman Waksman and his students and colleagues isolated many new antibiotics in the 1940s, including streptomycin and neomycin, earning him the nickname Father of Antibiotics.