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Co-author of the 1940 and 1941 papers on soil actinomycetes, Credited with first describing the actinomycins

H. B. Woodruff

Co-author, with Selman A. Waksman, of the 1940 paper on bacteriostatic and bactericidal substances produced by a soil actinomyces and the 1941 paper on Actinomyces antibioticus. Reviews credit the pair with first describing the actinomycins; the sources read give no further biographical detail.

Sources

  1. Waksman SA, Woodruff HB. Bacteriostatic and Bactericidal Substances Produced by a Soil Actinomyces. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 1940;45(2):609-614.

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  2. Waksman SA, Woodruff HB. Actinomyces antibioticus, a New Soil Organism Antagonistic to Pathogenic and Non-pathogenic Bacteria. J Bacteriol. 1941;42(2):231-49.

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  3. Demain AL, Sanchez S. Microbial drug discovery: 80 years of progress. J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2009;62(1):5-16.

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  4. Weber GF. Drugs that Suppress Proliferation (section: DNA Damaging Drugs). In: Molecular Therapies of Cancer. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 113-162. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-13278-5_3.

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