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Wainwright's interests are in [[astrobiology]] and the [[history of science]].<ref name="sheffield">{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright|title=Milton Wainwright - Academic Staff - Molecular Biology and Biotechnology - The University of Sheffield|author=University of Sheffield|publisher=sheffield.ac.uk|accessdate=2014-12-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053922/http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright|archivedate=2016-03-04}}</ref>
Wainwright's interests are in [[astrobiology]] and the [[history of science]].<ref name="sheffield">{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright|title=Milton Wainwright - Academic Staff - Molecular Biology and Biotechnology - The University of Sheffield|author=University of Sheffield|publisher=sheffield.ac.uk|accessdate=2014-12-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053922/http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mbb/staff/wainwright|archivedate=2016-03-04}}</ref>


In 2008, he claimed that the idea of [[natural selection]] is not original to [[Charles Darwin]]'s or [[Alfred Russel Wallace]]'s theory.<ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://wainwrightscience.blogspot.co.uk/|title=wainwrightscience|publisher=wainwrightscience.blogspot.co.uk|accessdate=2014-12-29}}</ref> Also, he has claimed that the [[red rain in Kerala]] is a biological entity.<ref name="tmcnet">{{cite web|url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/03/1427866.htm|title=It's raining aliens|publisher=tmcnet.com|accessdate=2014-12-29}}</ref> Wainwright has also written widely about the history of the discovery of [[penicillin]] (including that [[Adolf Hitler]]’s life was saved by the drug) and [[streptomycin]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wainwright |first1=Milton |title=Hitler's Penicillin |journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine |date=2004 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=189–198 |doi=10.1353/pbm.2004.0037 |pmid=15259203 |s2cid=29450203 |id={{Project MUSE|54167}} }}</ref> and on the hypothesis that bacteria and other non-virus microbes cause cancer.<ref name="All-PortlandDefault">{{cite web|url=http://www-07.all-portland.net/bsessays/default.htm|title=Biochemical Society Essays in Biochemistry|publisher=all-portland.net|accessdate=2014-12-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229235510/http://www-07.all-portland.net/bsessays/default.htm|archivedate=2014-12-29}}</ref>
In 2008, he claimed that the idea of [[natural selection]] is not original to [[Charles Darwin]]'s or [[Alfred Russel Wallace]]'s theory.<ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://wainwrightscience.blogspot.co.uk/|title=wainwrightscience|publisher=wainwrightscience.blogspot.co.uk|accessdate=2014-12-29}}</ref> Also, he has claimed that the [[red rain in Kerala]] is a biological entity.<ref name="tmcnet">{{cite web|url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/03/1427866.htm|title=It's raining aliens|publisher=tmcnet.com|accessdate=2014-12-29}}</ref> Wainwright has also written widely about the history of the discovery of [[penicillin]] (including that [[Adolf Hitler]]’s life was saved by the drug) and [[streptomycin]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wainwright |first1=Milton |title=Hitler's Penicillin |journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine |date=2004 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=189–198 |id={{Project MUSE|54167}} |doi=10.1353/pbm.2004.0037 |pmid=15259203 |s2cid=29450203 }}{{psc}}</ref> and on the hypothesis that bacteria and other non-virus microbes cause cancer.<ref name="All-PortlandDefault">{{cite web|url=http://www-07.all-portland.net/bsessays/default.htm|title=Biochemical Society Essays in Biochemistry|publisher=all-portland.net|accessdate=2014-12-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229235510/http://www-07.all-portland.net/bsessays/default.htm|archivedate=2014-12-29}}</ref>


In the 1980´s Wainwright interviewed [[Rutgers University]] faculty members for his 1990 book on antibiotics, ''Miracle Cure'', asking questions about [[Albert Schatz (scientist)]], which piqued the curiosity of some professors, who made their own inquiries and spoke with Schatz. A group of them began to lobby for Schatz's rehabilitation, because they were convinced that Schatz had been the victim of an injustice when the 1952 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] was awarded solely to [[Selman Waksman]]. This culminated in Rutgers awarding Schatz the 1994 [[Rutgers University Medal]], the university's highest honor.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|author=Veronique Mistiaen|date=2 November 2002|title=Time, and the great healer|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/nov/02/research.highereducation|accessdate=6 September 2022}}</ref>
In the 1980´s Wainwright interviewed [[Rutgers University]] faculty members for his 1990 book on antibiotics, ''Miracle Cure'', asking questions about [[Albert Schatz (scientist)]], which piqued the curiosity of some professors, who made their own inquiries and spoke with Schatz. A group of them began to lobby for Schatz's rehabilitation, because they were convinced that Schatz had been the victim of an injustice when the 1952 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] was awarded solely to [[Selman Waksman]]. This culminated in Rutgers awarding Schatz the 1994 [[Rutgers University Medal]], the university's highest honor.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|author=Veronique Mistiaen|date=2 November 2002|title=Time, and the great healer|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/nov/02/research.highereducation|accessdate=6 September 2022}}</ref>
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==Books==
==Books==


*{{cite book|title=Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics|author=Wainwright, M.|date=1990|publisher=Blackwell|isbn=9780631164920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dRWLQgAACAAJ|accessdate=2014-12-29}}
* {{cite book |last1=Wainwright |first1=Milton |title=Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics |date=1990 |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-0-631-16492-0 }}
* {{cite journal |doi=10.1007/978-1-4615-5251-2 }}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.tower.com/introduction-environmental-biotechnology-milton-wainwright-hardcover/wapi/101583998?download=true&type=1|title=Books: An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology (Hardcover) by Milton Wainwright (Author)|publisher=tower.com|accessdate=2014-12-29}}


==Honours and awards==
==Honours and awards==
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==Articles==
==Articles==
*Wainwright, M., Al Harbi, S. and Wickramasinghe, N.C. (2006). ''How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere?'' ''International Journal of Astrobiology'' '''5''',13–15.<ref name="cambridge">{{cite journal|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=457860|title=Cambridge Journals Online - International Journal of Astrobiology - Abstract - How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere?|journal=International Journal of Astrobiology |date=January 2006 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=13–15 |publisher=journals.cambridge.org|doi=10.1017/S1473550406002825 |accessdate=2014-12-29 |last1=Wainwright |first1=M. |last2=Alharbi |first2=S. |last3=Wickramasinghe |first3=N. C. |s2cid=19014202 }}</ref>
* {{cite journal |last1=Wainwright |first1=M. |last2=Alharbi |first2=S. |last3=Wickramasinghe |first3=N.C. |title=How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere? |journal=International Journal of Astrobiology |date=January 2006 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=13–15 |doi=10.1017/S1473550406002825 }}
*Shivaji, S., Chaturvedi, P., Kuresh, K., Redy, C.B.S., Wainwright, M. ''et al''. (2006). ''Bacillus aerius sp. nov. isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes''. ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology'' '''56''',1465–1473.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Shivaji, S., Chaturvedi, P., Kuresh, K., Redy, C.B.S., Wainwright, M. ''et al''. (2006). ''Bacillus aerius sp. nov. isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes''. ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology'' '''56''',1465–1473.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2008). ''Some highlights in the history of mycology—a personal journey''. ''Fungal Biology Reviews'', '''7''', 2297–102.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2008). ''Some highlights in the history of mycology—a personal journey''. ''Fungal Biology Reviews'', '''7''', 2297–102.<ref name="sheffield" />
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*Wainwright, M. (2002). ''Do fungi play a role in the aetiology of cancer?'' ''Reviews of Medical Microbiology'' '''13''', 1–6.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2002). ''Do fungi play a role in the aetiology of cancer?'' ''Reviews of Medical Microbiology'' '''13''', 1–6.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2006). ''The potential role of non-virus microorganisms in cancer''. ''Current Trends in Microbiology'' '''2''', 48–59.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2006). ''The potential role of non-virus microorganisms in cancer''. ''Current Trends in Microbiology'' '''2''', 48–59.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2010). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730928/ ''The origin of species without Darwin and Wallace'']. Saudi J Biol Sci. '''17''', 187–204.
* {{cite journal |last1=Wainwright |first1=Milton |title=The origin of species without Darwin and Wallace |journal=Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences |date=2010-7 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=187–204 |doi=10.1016/j.sjbs.2010.04.001 |pmc=3730928 }}
*Wainwright, M. (2011). ''Charles Darwin mycologist and refuter of his own myth''. ''Fungi'' '''4''', 12–20.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (2011). ''Charles Darwin mycologist and refuter of his own myth''. ''Fungi'' '''4''', 12–20.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (1991). ''Streptomycin: discovery and resultant controversy''. ''Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences'' '''13''', 97–124.<ref name="sheffield" />
*Wainwright, M. (1991). ''Streptomycin: discovery and resultant controversy''. ''Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences'' '''13''', 97–124.<ref name="sheffield" />

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Milton Wainwright
Born (1950-02-23) 23 February 1950 (age 74)
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
Known for"Alien Bugs", Neopanspermia
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology, Astrobiology
Institutions

Milton Wainwright (born 23 February 1950) is a British microbiologist who is known for his research into what he claims could be extraterrestrial life found in the stratosphere.[1][2][3]

Biography

Wainwright graduated from the University of Nottingham in the field of botany. He obtained a PhD from the same university in the field of mycology. From 1974-1975 he went to the National Research Council of Canada as postdoctoral fellow, where he obtained a qualification in environmental microbiology. From 1975-1986, he was a Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Sheffield.[4]

Research

Wainwright's interests are in astrobiology and the history of science.[4]

In 2008, he claimed that the idea of natural selection is not original to Charles Darwin's or Alfred Russel Wallace's theory.[5] Also, he has claimed that the red rain in Kerala is a biological entity.[6] Wainwright has also written widely about the history of the discovery of penicillin (including that Adolf Hitler’s life was saved by the drug) and streptomycin[7] and on the hypothesis that bacteria and other non-virus microbes cause cancer.[8]

In the 1980´s Wainwright interviewed Rutgers University faculty members for his 1990 book on antibiotics, Miracle Cure, asking questions about Albert Schatz (scientist), which piqued the curiosity of some professors, who made their own inquiries and spoke with Schatz. A group of them began to lobby for Schatz's rehabilitation, because they were convinced that Schatz had been the victim of an injustice when the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded solely to Selman Waksman. This culminated in Rutgers awarding Schatz the 1994 Rutgers University Medal, the university's highest honor.[9]

Wainwright identifies as an agnostic.[10]

Books

  • Wainwright, Milton (1990). Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-16492-0.
  • . doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5251-2. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

Honours and awards

Articles

  • Wainwright, M.; Alharbi, S.; Wickramasinghe, N.C. (January 2006). "How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere?". International Journal of Astrobiology. 5 (1): 13–15. doi:10.1017/S1473550406002825.
  • Shivaji, S., Chaturvedi, P., Kuresh, K., Redy, C.B.S., Wainwright, M. et al. (2006). Bacillus aerius sp. nov. isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56,1465–1473.[4]
  • Wainwright, M. (2008). Some highlights in the history of mycology—a personal journey. Fungal Biology Reviews, 7, 2297–102.[4]
  • Wainwright, M., Leswd, A. and Alshammari, F. (2009). Bacteria in amber coal and clay in relation to lithopanspermia. International Journal of Astrobiology 8,141–143.[4]
  • Wainwright, M. (2010). The overlooked link between non-virus microbes and cancer. Science Progress 93, 393–40.[4]
  • Wainwright, M. (2002). Do fungi play a role in the aetiology of cancer? Reviews of Medical Microbiology 13, 1–6.[4]
  • Wainwright, M. (2006). The potential role of non-virus microorganisms in cancer. Current Trends in Microbiology 2, 48–59.[4]
  • Wainwright, Milton (2010-7). "The origin of species without Darwin and Wallace". Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 17 (3): 187–204. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2010.04.001. PMC 3730928. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Wainwright, M. (2011). Charles Darwin mycologist and refuter of his own myth. Fungi 4, 12–20.[4]
  • Wainwright, M. (1991). Streptomycin: discovery and resultant controversy. Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 13, 97–124.[4]
  • Wainwright, M. and Swan, H.T. (1986). C.G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical record of penicillin therapy. Medical History 30, 42–56.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "'Alien Bugs' Discovered In Earth's Atmosphere". news.sky.com. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  2. ^ "The truth IS out there (above Cheshire, that is): British scientists claim to have found proof of alien life - Science - News - The Independent". independent.co.uk. 19 September 2013. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Astrobiologists Claim to Have Found Extraterrestrial Life Form in Earth's Stratosphere | Space Exploration | Sci-News.com". sci-news.com. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l University of Sheffield. "Milton Wainwright - Academic Staff - Molecular Biology and Biotechnology - The University of Sheffield". sheffield.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  5. ^ "wainwrightscience". wainwrightscience.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  6. ^ "It's raining aliens". tmcnet.com. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  7. ^ Wainwright, Milton (2004). "Hitler's Penicillin". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 47 (2): 189–198. doi:10.1353/pbm.2004.0037. PMID 15259203. S2CID 29450203. Project MUSE 54167.[non-primary source needed]
  8. ^ "Biochemical Society Essays in Biochemistry". all-portland.net. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  9. ^ Veronique Mistiaen (2 November 2002). "Time, and the great healer". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  10. ^ "Milton Wainwright". British Centre for Science Education.

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