Selman Abraham WAKSMAN Physician; (b. Nova Pryluka, Kiev district, 10 July 1888 – d. Hyannis (Massachusetts), 16 August 1973)

University professor: Rutgers College, professor and head of the Department for Microbiology  (1925–1958); and director of the Institute for Microbiology

Membership of SASA: Department of Medical Sciences; foreign member from 17 December 1959

Awards and recognitions: Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of streptomycin (1952); winner of numerous awards and honorary doctorates

Obituary: Glasnik/SANU 25 (1974) 209–211 (M. Đurišić)

Photograph: SANU F – 482/1