H. Boyd Woodruff

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“At the time of his death, he was one of the last living links to the Golden Age of Antibiotics discovery and a towering figure in {{w|industrial microbiology}}. It says something of his stature that he received rare obituaries in both the {{w|New York Times}} [Roberts, 2017] and {{w|Science (journal)|Science}} [Bennett et al., 2017].”

“{{w|Actinomycetes}} are important members of the {{w|Soil microbiology|soil population}}, actively growing, metabolizing, degrading resistant substances, capable of producing {{w|secondary metabolite}}s useful for man.”