David Gottlieb a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 (1946–1982), was a pioneer in the field of fungi physiology and antibiotics for plants.

Gottlieb is best known for isolation in the 1940s of the strain of Streptomyces from which chloramphenicol

Chloramphenicol

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 was developed, for his mentoring in the field, and for his editorial work.

Honors

• Guggenheim Fellow, Biology-Plant Science, 1963.
• Fellow, The American Phytopathological Society, 1966.
• Editor for the Annual Review of Phytopathology, 1969-1974.

In his memory, the “David Gottlieb Memorial Award” is given by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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for outstanding published research on the biochemistry of plant diseases or plant pathogens.,

Publications

• Gottlieb, D. (Jan. 1961) “'An Evaluation of Criteria and Procedures Used in the Description and Characterization of the Streptomycetes: A Cooperative Study” Appl Microbiol. 9(1): 55–65.
• Gottlieb, D. (1974) “Germination of fungal spores: Biochemical processes during spore germination, Carbohydrate metabolism” 2nd International Symposium on the Fungus Spore.