Waksman was a Russian-born Jewish American inventor, biochemist, and microbiologist whose research at Rutgers University over four decades led him to discover over twenty antibiotics (a word that he coined) and introduced procedures that led to the development of many others. In 1952, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition "for his discovery of 'streptomycin,' the first antibiotic active against tuberculosis."
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