Prof. Selman A. Waksman, the discoverer of streptothenpain, has been awarded a gold medal by the Turkish Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Selman A. Waksman was cheered when he received the award at the opening of the Fifteenth international Tuberculosis Conference here, Israel was represented by two doctors.
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