Two Signed Offprints on Streptomycin

by Selman Waksman

$3,500 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

1944 and 1953. First Edition. Waksman held the chair of microbiology at Rutgers University for the better part of three decades, presiding over a research program of unusual systematic rigor: the methodical screening of soil microorganisms for antibiotic activity, conducted at a scale and with a discipline that no laboratory had previously applied to the problem. That program, pursued in collaboration with his graduate students Albert Schatz and Elizabeth

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