Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1952
Selman A. Waksman received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.