The man who coined the term "antibiotics" and pioneered their development is born this day in 1888. While studying plant and animal way rest breaks down in the soil microbiologist Selman Waksman at Rutgers University discovered a menagerie of bacteria filamentous soil. In 1943, while working on the molds, he found that the chemical is produced which removes bacterial attackers; streptomycin later became the first effective antituberculosis drug. Five years later, Waksman team developed neomycin, another important antibiotic. In 1952 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of streptomycin. Waksman died in 1973.
Sources: Nobel Foundation, Encarta
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