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The golden age of Microbiology

1857-1914

Alexander Fleming

Discovered penicillin in 1928

1876

Robert Koch -set of rules establishing that microbes being the cause of specific disease. Kochs postulate

1861

Louis Pasteur established concept of cell theory and disproved spontaneous generation.

Edward Jenner

First to experiment with the concept of vaccination in 1796

Joseph Lister

Who used phenol (carbonic acid) to disinfect surgical tools and patients 1860.

Ignaz Semmelweis

Asked hospital staff to wash hands to prevent infection but was fired for being to demanding 1840

Louis Pasteur

Swan neck flask allowing vital forces into sterile broth with no contamination. Disproving spontaneous generation and establishing second part of cell theory

Laruvent Lavoisier

Demonstrated oxygen was a vital force to living things.

John Needham

Boiled broth to demo cell theory but was discouraged because contamination occurred 1700s

Francesco Redi

Demonstrated cell theory with an experiment involving maggots. 1668

Antoni Leeuwenhoek

Credited with identifying bacteria as life form 1673

Robert Hooke

Identified the term 'cell' and established the first part of the cell theory.