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    <title>Selman A. Waksman papers, 1915-1960</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Waksman, Selman A. (Selman Abraham)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1888-1973</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, articles, and radio scripts pertaining to Waksman's career in the field of microbiology.  Correspondence with colleagues pertains to Waksman's discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin as well as to his research of other microbes.  Other correspondence relates to Waksman's early studies at Rutgers University, his graduate work at the University of California, and his return to Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology.  Correspondents include Paul R. Burkholder, René J. Dubos, Alexander Fleming, and George Wilhelm Merck.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, typewritten transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Microbiologist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burkholder, Paul R. (Paul Rufus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1972</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dubos, René J. (René Jules)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1982</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fleming, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Merck, George Wilhelm</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rutgers University.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>University of California.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Antibiotics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Microbiology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Soil microbiology</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Streptomycin</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
    <geographic>New Jersey</geographic>
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    <occupation>Microbiologists</occupation>
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