death_date work_institution societies nationality doctoral_students field birth_date known_for residence article_title name
1982 university of illinois at urbana-champaign the american phytopathological society usa fu-kuen lin phytopathology 1911 isolation strain of streptomyces usa david gottlieb
 david gottlieb
david gottlieb

david gottlieb -lrb- 1911 -- 1982 -rrb- , a professor of plant pathology at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign -lrb- 1946 -- 1982 -rrb- , was a pioneer in the field of fungal physiology and antibiotics for plants .
gottlieb is best known for isolation in the 1940s of the strain of streptomyces from which chloramphenicol was developed , for his mentoring in the field , and for his editorial work .
he used plant-pathogenic fungi in studies of sterol biosynthesis , respiration , aging , spore germination , and the mechanism of action of antifungal antibiotics .
gottlieb discovered or co-discovered several new antibiotics in addition to chloramphenicol , including filipin , levomycin , and tetrin , and he described the mechanism of action and biosynthesis of several of these and other antibiotics .
