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.
From 1974 to 1975 he went to the National Research Council of Canada as postdoctoral fellow, where he obtained a qualification in environmental microbiology.
[4] In 2008, he claimed that the idea of natural selection is not original to Charles Darwin's or Alfred Russel Wallace's theory.
[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 1980s Wainwright interviewed Rutgers University faculty members for his 1990 book on antibiotics, Miracle Cure, asking questions about Albert Schatz, which piqued the curiosity of some professors, who made their own inquiries and spoke with Schatz.