Waksman me ana kaimahi taiwhanga i kitea e rave rahi antibiotics, tae atu actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin, fradicin, candicidin, me te candidin. o enei, streptomycin me neomycin kitea tono whānui i roto i te maimoatanga o te maha mate pukupuku. ko Streptomycin te rongoā antibiotic tuatahi mo te tuberculosis (TB). i roto i te 1952 Waksman ko te kaiwhiwhi o te Nobel Prize i roto i te Physiology ranei Medicine i roto i te mohio ki "tōna kitenga o te streptomycin, te rauropi tuatahi ki te tuberculosis". i tīmata Waksman me ana kaimahi taiwhanga i te rangahau kaupapa rangahau maha antibiotics, tae atu ki te actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin, fradicin, candicidin, me te candidin. i roto i te United States Army i te marama o Maehe 1944 i tīmata te mahi i tenei, engari i muri i
Ko te tau 1943