Shaking Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1940s
name: label: Associated Name
content: Waksman, Selman A.
label: maker
content: Arthur H. Thomas Company
notes: label: Description
content: Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973) was a Ukranian Jew who moved to the United States, studied at Rutgers University, earned a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California in 1918, joined the faculty at Rutgers, worked on antibiotics, discovered streptomycin, and won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1952.
label: Description
content: Dr. Waksman and his students and colleagues at Rutgers University used this shaking machine to study citric acid production by Aspergillus wentii (1940). In early in 1943, they used it to produce streptothrycin by Streptomyces lavendulae, and study the experimental production of various antibiotics by microorganisms.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Nobel Prize
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Selamn A. Waksman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06619
label: catalog number
content: M-06619
label: accession number
content: 198288
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shaking Machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (flasks(12) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)