Sergei N. Winogradsky, His Life and Work. The Story of a Great Bacteriologist. (Presentation copy, inscribed by Waksman to Simon & Schuster co-founder Max Schuster.)

WAKSMAN, Selman A. [Abraham] (1888-1973):

Published by New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953., 1953

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Frontispiece, xv, 150 pp; illus. Original cloth. Very Good. Inscribed on verso of frontispiece: 'To a great Publisher and/friend, Max Schuster and/to Mrs Schuster/from/? and Selman A. Waksman'. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 was awarded to Selman A. Waksman 'for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.' Simon & Schuster published Waksman's autobiography, My Life with Microbes (1954), the year after this book. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ('Max') Schuster co-founded Simon & Schuster in 1924.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sergei N. Winogradsky, His Life and Work. The Story of a Great Bacteriologist. (Presentation copy, inscribed by Waksman to Simon & Schuster co-founder Max Schuster.)
• Publisher: New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
• Publication Date: 1953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)