Microbiology Definitions

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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initiated the fild of microbiology

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Robert Hooke

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invented a micrrosscope with which he observed thin slices of cork. he coined the term cell to describe the orderly arrangement of boxes he saw in the cork

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Francesco Redi

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performed experiments in the late 17th century showing when flies were allowed access to meat maggots would appear.

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Louis Pasteur

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invented a swan-necked flask in the early 19th century. he also developed the technique of pasteurization, and the first vaccines that were specificall created to prevent (rabies and cholera)

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John Tyndall

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showed that air can be sterilized by allowing all particles to settle.

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Robert Koch

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devised Koch;s postulates:
1. the specific causative agent must be found in every case of the disease.
2. the disease organism must be isolated in pure culture.
3. inoculation of a culture sample int a helathy sussceptible animal must produce the same disease
4. the disease organism must be recovered from the inoculated animal

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Joseph Lister

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aseptic techniques.

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Paul Ehrlich

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Coined the term Chemotherapy= the development of drugs to treat specific disease.

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Alexander Fleming

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initiated the hunt for antibiotics-- he disscovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin in the 1920;s

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Selman Waksman

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isolated Streptomycin in 1943, which lead to a major breakthrough in the treatmment of tuberculosis

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Edward Jenner

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noticed that milkmaids who were ecposed to cowpox did not catch smallpox.

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Eli Metchnikoff

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discovered cills in the body that would ingest microbes which he termed phagocytes.