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Zakhor
HistoryFigure1888–1973

זלמן וקסמן

Region: Ukraine et États-Unis

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American microbiologist of Ukrainian origin, Nobel Prize 1952, discoverer of streptomycin, the first effective antibiotic against tuberculosis. He coined the term “antibiotic.”

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