Today it’s impossible to imagine our health care without antibiotics. Almost all the types of basic important antibiotics had been discovered in sixteis of the last century. In 1952 Selman A. Waksman was awarded with Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. He discovered streptomycin — the first effective antituberculosis antibiotic. In may the 12th, 1945 streptomycin had been successfully used on a human. S. A. Waksman was born in Ukraine. In 1910 he passed successfully “maturity examinations” in Odessa’s 5th Gymnasium. In 1910 Waksman emigrated to the United States, graduated from the Agricultural College and the Californian University. In 1940 S. A. Waksman become a professor of microbiology in the Rutgers University. Nine years later he headed the microbiology institute in the Rutgers University. Waksman’s basic works were dedicated to the microbiology and antibiotics researching.
