BACTE HISTORY Flashcards
– 1st True microbiologist
Anton Van Leuuwonhoek
FATHER of Protozoology/ Bacteriology + observe/describe mx accurately
Anton Van Leuuwonhoek
— discovered animalcules
Anton Van Leuuwonhoek
— self-made single lens microscope w/ 50-300x magnification.
Anton Van Leuuwonhoek
They suggested that disease was caused by “Invisible living creature“
Roman Philosopher Lucretius/ Girolamo Fracastoro
Earliest microscopic observations on bees & weevils, supplied by Galileo.
Francisco Stelluti
Life arose from non-living matter
Spontaneous generation
proposed that simpler vertebrates can arise in spontaneous generation.
Aristotle
maggots do not arise spontaneously from decaying meat
Francesco Redi
— boiled mutton broth eventually became cloudy with Mx after pouring it into a flask and sealed tightly
John Needham
— organic matter possessed a “vital force“ that could give rise to life.
John Needham
protects the broth so there’s no growth.
Sealed
Boiled the sealed glass flasks that contained water and seeds → remained clear, spontaneous growth
Lazarro Spallanzani
challenged the spontaneous generation with the concept of “BIOGENESIS“
Rudolf Virchow
— dust carry germs which contaminates sterile broth
John Tyndall
–- Invented “Tyndallization” : sterilization form for 3 consecutive days
John Tyndall
steam as moist heat for a certain temperature for sterilization.
John Tyndall
— Importance of O2 to life.
Antoine Laurent Lavoiser
—no growth occurred in a flask containing nutrient solution after allowing air to pass through a red-hot tube.
Theodore Schwann
— no growth occurred after allowing air to pass through sterile cotton wool placed in a flask of heat-sterilized medium.
Goerg Friedrich Schrodder/
Theodore Von Dusch
observed that upon application of heat, there will be no presence of growth in bacteria → heat = killing & sterilizing agent.
George Friedrich Schrodder/ Theodore Von Dusch