Harold Boyd Woodruff (July 22, 1917 – January 19, 2017) was an American soil microbiologist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
He was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey into a farming family, that was forced to move out of the state during the Great Depression.
His family relocated to Buffalo, New York, Virginia and Florida before returning to his home state.
As part of a lawsuit challenging Schatz's claim as discoverer of streptomycin, Woodruff was awarded 2% of the royalties, which he used to fund a scholarship for students at Rutgers studying microbiology.
[4] After retirement, he founded the firm Soil Microbiology Associates together with his wife Jeanette.