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.^[1][2][3]

Wainwright graduated from the University of Nottingham in the field of botany. He obtained a PhD from the same university in the field of mycology. After he went to the National Research Council of Canada as postdoctoral fellow, where he obtained a qualification in environmental microbiology. After his postdoctoral fellowship, he went to work at the University of Sheffield.^[4]

Wainwright's interests are in astrobiology and the history of science.^[4] He claimed that the idea of natural selection is not original to Darwin's or Wallace's theory.^[5] Also, he has claimed that the red rain in Kerala is a biological entity.^[6] Wainwright has also written widely about the history of the discovery penicillin (including that 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]

Wainwright identifies as an agnostic.^[9]

Milton Wainwright is author of the books Miracle Cure: The Story of Penicillin and the Golden Age of Antibiotics (1990) and An introduction to environmental biotechnology (2011).^[10][11]

• Honorary Professor and Fellow of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, Great Britain, 2012^[4]
• Honorary Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2010
• Honorary Professor, Cardiff University, Great Britain, 2009

• Wainwright, M., Al Harbi, S. and Wickramasinghe, N.C. (2006). How do microorganisms reach the stratosphere? International Journal of Astrobiology 5,13–15.^[12]
• Shivaji, S., Chaturvedi, P., Kuresh, K., Redy, C.B.S., Wainwright, M. et al. (2006). Bacillus aerius sp. nov. isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56,1465–1473.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. (2008). Some highlights in the history of mycology—a personal journey. Fungal Biology Reviews, 7, 2297–102.^[4]
• Wainwright, M., Leswd, A. and Alshammari, F. (2009). Bacteria in amber coal and clay in relation to lithopanspermia. International Journal of Astrobiology 8,141–143.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. (2010). The overlooked link between non-virus microbes and cancer. Science Progress 93, 393–40.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. (2002). Do fungi play a role in the aetiology of cancer? Reviews of Medical Microbiology 13, 1–6.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. (2006). The potential role of non-virus microorganisms in cancer. Current Trends in Microbiology 2, 48–59.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. (2010). The origin of species without Darwin and Wallace. Saudi J Biol Sci. 17, 187–204.
• Wainwright, M. (2011). Charles Darwin mycologist and refuter of his own myth. Fungi 4, 12–20.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. (1991). Streptomycin: discovery and resultant controversy. Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 13, 97–124.^[4]
• Wainwright, M. and Swan, H.T. (1986). C.G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical record of penicillin therapy. Medical History 30, 42–56.^[4]

• Notification: Dr.Wainwright has more than 100 different publications in several fields, that can be fould through link below:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=3n-G_T0AAAAJ&hl=en

• Panspermia
• Chandra Wickramasinghe

• Milton Wainwright academic page