Selman Waksman
22 July 1888 — 16 August 1973
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics. For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates 17, -19.