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Who is Milton Wainwright?

I am British microbiologist, graduated from the University of Nottingham in botany and obtained my\xa0PhD from there in mycology and soil microbiology. After which, I went to Canada as a National Research\xa0Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow, researching\xa0aspects of environmental microbiology. After my\xa0postdoctoral fellowship, In 1975 I was appointed to\xa0the University of Sheffield. I have been awarded\xa0honorary professorships from Cardiff and Buckingham\xa0Universities in the UK, King Saud University in\xa0Saudi Arabia, and from the Megunaroden Slavjanski Institute in the Republic of Macedonia. I was also\xa0made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), (2014), and a Distinguished Fellow of the\xa0Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics \u2013 Japan (ISPA) (2015).

My main research areas: a) astrobiology, particularly in relation to our recent research findings that\xa0microbes exist in space, and continually arriving to Earth from the cosmos, b) Alternatives to antibiotics\xa0for use against MRSA, c)\xa0the hypothesis that bacteria and other non-virus microbes cause cancer. I also\xa0research and publish on the history of Science, particularly showing that the idea of natural selection is\xa0not original to Darwin\u2019s or Wallace\u2019s theory. I have also written widely about the history of the discovery\xa0of penicillin and streptomycin.

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