Abstract
One of the greatest chemical biologists dealing with antibiotic production by streptomycetes was Leo Charles Vining. Born on a farm in Whangareri, New Zealand in 1925, he first became a chemist and then later a microbiologist. During World War II, Leo joined the New Zealand Navy and traveled to Canada to train as a pilot. After the war, he returned to New Zealand and enrolled in the University of Aukland. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry there in 1948 and then a Master of Science degree in Chemistry in 1949, Leo moved on to the Cambridge University in England where he successfully completed his Ph.D. studies in Organic Chemistry in 1952. He then moved on to research appointments at the Kiel University in Germany, and later to the Rutgers University in the United States of America. One might guess that Leo’s love of the streptomycetes began at the Rutgers University where Selman Waksman and his students, such as Albert Schatz, Boyd Woodruff and Hubert Lechevalier, had become famous for their discoveries of streptomycin and other antibiotics produced by streptomycetes.
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