Selman Waksman
1888 CE–1973 CE · Nova Pryluka
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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- Otto Hahn· 1879 CE–1968 CE
- Max Born· 1882 CE–1970 CE
- Peter Debye· 1884 CE–1966 CE
- Niels Bohr· 1885 CE–1962 CE
- Erwin Schrödinger· 1887 CE–1961 CE
- Richard Courant· 1888 CE–1972 CE
- C. V. Raman· 1888 CE–1970 CE
- Otto Stern· 1888 CE–1969 CE
- James Chadwick· 1891 CE–1974 CE
- Arthur Compton· 1892 CE–1962 CE
- Meghnad Saha· 1893 CE–1956 CE
- Harold Urey· 1893 CE–1981 CE
- Georges Lemaître· 1894 CE–1966 CE
- Norbert Wiener· 1894 CE–1964 CE
- Satyendra Nath Bose· 1894 CE–1974 CE
- John Cockcroft· 1897 CE–1967 CE
- Leo Szilard· 1898 CE–1964 CE
- Howard Florey· 1898 CE–1968 CE
- Wolfgang Pauli· 1900 CE–1958 CE
- Enrico Fermi· 1901 CE–1954 CE
- John von Neumann· 1903 CE–1957 CE
- J. Robert Oppenheimer· 1904 CE–1967 CE
- George Gamow· 1904 CE–1968 CE
- Alan Turing· 1912 CE–1954 CE
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- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
- Sukarno· 1901 CE–1970 CE
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