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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Microscope builder and observed animolecules
Lucretius
Disease caused by invisible creatures
Artistotle
spontaneous generation
Francesco Redi
Cheesecloth on meat stopped maggots
John Needleham
Boiled broth sealed in jars still became turbid
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Sealed flasks of broth boiled and didn't become turbid= air required for microbes
Louis Pasteur
First to connect cause and effect, discovered fermentation, nature of disease and spontaneous generation
Robert Koch
methods and principles for isolation and pure bacterial cultures, proved cause of disease and discovered cause of tuberculosis
Limitations of Koch's postulates?
pathogen growth on culture:
required complex nutrients from host
slow growing organisms fail
organisms that can't grow on selected media fail
Fannie Hesse and Richard Petri
Pure culture isolation on agar petri dishes
Edward Jenner
Smallpox Vaccine
Ferdinand Cohn
Founder of bacteriology
Sergei Winogradsky
Concept of chemolithotrophy and autotrophy
Martinus Bejerinck
enrichment culturing method and concept of a virus
Alexander Fleming
Discovery of penicillin
Howard Foley
Prod of penicillin on industrial scale
Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz
Discovery of streptomycin in soil bacteria foundation of modern pharmaceutical industry
Thomas Brock
Discovery of bacteria in boiling hotsprings - isolated
Thermus aquaticus
Carl Woese and George Fox
Discovery of archaea
Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith
1st complete sequence of bacterial genome
Author
eloci
ID
200619
Card Set
Micro 265
Description
History of discoveries
Updated
2/14/2013, 10:37:59 PM
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