The Cycle of Life:
An History of Experimental Ecology

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In the 1930s-1940s, Winogradsky’s ecological microbiology inspired a generation of soil scientists, microbiologists, and agriculturalists. Selman Waksman applied Winogradsky’s “direct ecological method” in his soil microbiology research at Rutgers University. Later, at the Rockefeller Institute, this approach led his student Rene Dubos to the surprising discovery of antibiotics and a Nobel prize for Waksman.
  Selman Waksman, Principles of Soil Microbiology, 1927; and Microbial Antagonisms and Antibiotic Substances, 1945
  Rene Dubos, The White Plague, 1952; and The Unseen World, 1962
   
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