David Gottlieb (* 1911; † 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 developedNov 2004 Phytopathology News, Vol. 38, No. 11, p.154, for his mentoring in the field, and for his editorial work.Editor for the Annual Review of Phytopathology, 1969-1974

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.,“David Gottlieb Memorial Award”

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