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Woodruff, Harold Boyd, 1917-2017

LC control no.no2010187172
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Personal name headingWoodruff, Harold Boyd, 1917-2017
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Variant(s)Woodruff, H. Boyd (Harold Boyd), 1917-2017
Woodruff, Boyd, 1917-2017
Birth date1917-07-22
Death date2017-01-19
Place of birthBridgeton (N.J.)
Place of deathWatchung (N.J.)
Field of activitySoil microbiology Antibiotics
AffiliationMerck & Co.
Profession or occupationMicrobiologists
Found inScientific contributions of Selman A. Waksman, 1968: t.p. (Harold Boyd Woodruff)
OCLC, Nov. 17, 2010 (hdg: Woodruff, Harold Boyd, 1917-)
New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 6, 2017 (in obituary published Feb. 3: H. Boyd Woodruff; b. Harold Boyd Woodruff, July 22, 1917, Bridgeton, N.J.; known as Boyd; d. Jan. 19, Watchung, N.J., aged 99; farmer's son whose groundbreaking research enabled fellow scientists to harvest an arsenal of lifesaving antibiotics from ordinary dirt)
Associated languageeng