Dr. Selman A. Waksman, a Nobel Prize winner and principal discover of streptomycin, died Thursday at Hyannis Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., at the age of 85. Born in the Ukraine in 1888, he emigrated to the United States in 1910. As a Jew, he was barred from attending the Fifth Gymnasium in Odessa but he could and did take courses and examinations there by correspondence.
He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at Rutgers University. After earning a doctorate at the University of California, he returned to Rutgers to become a professor of microbiology. He spent most of his 50-year career as a scientist at Rutgers. He received honorary degrees from Brandeis University, the Hebrew University and Yeshiva University. He won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine in 1951.
Five Jerusalem Arab workers have decided to run for the Histadrut convention and the local workers council, for the first time since the Six Day War.
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