Source: Good News Network
On this day 75 years ago, the first remedy for tuberculosis was identified by Dr. Selman Waksman, a Ukrainian-born, Jewish-American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist who had been studying the subject for years at Rutgers University. The professor’s team discovered streptomycin, the first antibiotic that could be used to cure tuberculosis—in fact, he coined the term antibiotics, to describe antibacterials derived from other living organisms and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the work.
He donated the licensing proceeds of his patents to fund a foundation for microbiological research at Rutgers. (1943)MORE Good News on this Day:
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