Selman Waksman
Inventor
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Jewish Ukrainian inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. Wikipedia
Born: July 22, 1888, Nova Pryluka, Ukraine
Died: August 16, 1973 (age 85 years), Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1918) and Rutgers, The State University (1915)
Nationality: American and Russian
Children: Byron H. Waksman (1919–2012)