Microbiology Timeline
Category: Science
Updated: 4 months ago
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Created byEvelyn Highland
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observed the first microscopic organisms.Robert Hooke created cell theory.Carolus Linnaeus established the system of scientific nomenclature.Edward Jenner created the world's first vaccine to fight smallpox.Paul Ehrlich developed salvarson, a synthetic arsenic drug, to treat syphilis.Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin.Theodor Escherich discovered E. coli by culturing bacteria from an infant's feces.Carl Woese created the classification of organisms into the three domains: Bacteria, Archaea, and EukaryaRudolf Virchow's work discovered that diseases occur at a cellular level.Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation using his S-shaped flask experiments with broth.Pasteur developed the technique of pasteurization to eliminate disease causing bacteria.Agostino Bassi showed that a silkworm disease was caused by a fungus.Ignaz Semmelweis advocated from hand washing in the medical field.Joseph Lister used phenol, a chemical antiseptic, to prevent surgical wound infectionsRobert Koch discovered bacterium causes anthrax and created Koch's postulates.Rebecca Lancefield classified streptococci based on their cell wall componentsWendell Stanely discovered that viruses have properties of both living and nonliving matter.Dmitri Ivanovsky discovered viruses while studying tobacco mosaic disease.Paul Berg inserted DNA from a bacterium into a virus' DNA.James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.Peyton Rous discovered that viruses can cause cancer.
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