About 1.5 million people nowadays die every year from tuberculosis in the world, but before the discovery of streptomycin by Selman Waksman in 1943, this toll was several dozen times higher. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic effective for treatment of tuberculosis, and, unlike penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming by accident, Waksman and his students had… Continue reading Stories of Ukrainian jews. Selman Waksman