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Rutgers Professor Selman Waksman (foreground) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1952. Dr. Waksman's studies had led to the discovery of streptomycin, a new antibiotic. Streptomycin was the first effective cure for tuberculosis.  Pictured with Waksman is his favorite graduate student, Boyd Woodruff.  H. Boyd Woodruff was President of the Theobald Smith Society (1949-1950) and the 2007 Waksman Lecturer.  After obtaining his PhD from Rutgers, Dr. Woodruff joined the research laboratories of Merck & Co., Inc. in 1942 as a research microbiologist. He was promoted to Director of the Microbiological Research Department and later served as Executive Director of Biological Sciences. He guided fermentation programs for the commercial production of penicillin and streptomycin, the first drug used widely to cure tuberculosis, and of vitamin B12, which overcomes pernicious anemia. During his laboratory leadership, Merck & Co. became a leader in new antibiotic discovery. His final ten years of employment were spent in Tokyo, serving as Executive Administrator of the Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, Japan, where he obtained for marketing in America Japanese discoveries for treatment of urinary tract infections, ulcers, parasitic diseases and a vaccine against chicken pox. Woodruff retired from Merck in 1982.

1954 - BERNARD D. DAVIS 

1955 - ALFRED D. HERSHEY Nobel Prize

1956 - JOHN T. BONNER

1957 - WAYNE W. UMBREIT

1958 - MANFRED M. MAYER

1959 - CURTIS B. THORNE

1960 - EVELYN M. WITKIN

1961 - SAM S. BARKULIS

1962 - JULIUS MARMUR

1963 - ALLAN GAREN

1964 - EDWARD REICH

1965 - NOBORU SUEOKA

1966 - MARVIN FISHMAN

1967 - FRANK J. RAUSCHER

1968 - DANIEL NATHANS Nobel Prize

1969 - JAMES H. SCHWARTZ

1970 - CHARLES E. HELMSETTER

1971 - MAX M. BURGER

1972 - HOWARD TEMIN

1973 - H. RON KABACK

1974 - ALLEN LASKIN

1975 - ARNOLD DEMAIN

1976 - VERNON BRYSON

1977 - SIDNEY PESTKA

1978 - KARL MARAMOROSCH

1979 - R. WALTER SCHLESINGER

1980 - THOMAS E. SHENK

1981 - JEROME BIRNBAUM

1982 - BYRON WAKSMAN

1983 - RICHARD NOVICK

1984 - GEOFFREY ZUBAY

1985 - JEAN E. BRENCHLEY

1986 - NORBERTO PALLERONI

1987 - ALEXANDER TOMASZ

1988 - SMITH SHADOMY

1989 - GUENTHER STOTZKY

1990 - EDWARD 0. STAPLEY

1991 - MARY P. LECHEVALIER

1992 - NAFSIKA H. GEORGOPAPADAKOU

1993 - ALBERT SCHATZ

1994 - GEORGE LUEDEMANN

1995 - HERBERT PRINCE

1996 - GEORGE CARMAN

​1997 - ALAN ANTOINE

1998 - CARL SCHAFFNER

1999 - SAMUEL M. RINGEL

2000 - DAVID PRAMER

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