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* 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )
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In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.
* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.
1888 and Selman
** Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1888 )
Selman Abraham Waksman ( July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973 ) was a Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances — largely into organisms that live in soil — and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics.
Selman Waksman was born on July 22, 1888, to Jewish parents in Nova Pryluka, Podolia Governorate, in the Russian Empire, now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
1888 and American
In the summer of 1888, with classes in summer recess, Beaux worked in the fishing village of Concarneau with the American painters Alexander Harrison and Charles Lasar.
At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote.
* 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University ( d. 1888 )
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