CHAPTER 1 GUIDE PEOPLE Flashcards
Francesco Redi
the first person to test the spontaneous generation theory
Louis Jablot
a Frenchman who reasoned that even the microscopic organisms must have parents, and his experiments with infusions (dried hay steeped in water) supported that hypothesis.
John Needham
an Englishman who did spontaneous generation experiments without proper sterilization.
Louis Pasteur
in mid-1800s, he entered the arena. He had recently been studying the roles of microorganisms in the fermentation of beer and wine.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
a Dutch linen merchant and self-made microbiologist.
Edward Jenner
he is considered the “Father of Immunology”.
John Tyndall
an English physicist that provided the initial evidence that some of the microbes in dust and air have very high heat resistance and that particularly vigorous treatment is required to destroy them.
Ferdinand Cohn
a German botanist, clarified why heat would sometimes fail to completely eliminate all microorganisms
Robert Koch
about 130 years ago, the first studies he made clearly linked a microscopic organism with a specified disease.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
an American physician, observed that mothers who gave birth at home experienced fewer infections than did mothers who gave birth in the hospital.
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis
a Hungarian doctor who showed quite clearly that women became infected in the maternity ward after examinations by physicians coming directly from the autopsy room.
Joseph Lister
an English surgeon who first introduced “aseptic techniques” aimed at reducing microbes in a medical setting and preventing wound infections.
Ignaz Semmelweis
the Hungarian physician who substantiates his theory that childbed fever is a contagious disease transmitted to women by their physicians during childbirth.
Joseph Lister
an English surgeon who was the first to introduce aseptic techniques.
Robert Hooke
an Englishman who explores a variety of living and nonliving matter with a compound microscope that uses reflected light in 1660.
