David Gottlieb

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David Gottlieb (b. 1911, d. 1982), a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (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 was developed^[1], for his mentoring in the field, and for his editorial work.^[2]

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 for outstanding published research on the biochemistry of plant diseases or plant pathogens.,^[3]

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.

References

1. ^ Nov 2004 Phytopathology News, Vol. 38, No. 11, p.154
2. ^ Editor for the Annual Review of Phytopathology, 1969-1974
3. ^ “David Gottlieb Memorial Award”