Historical figures

Question 1

Paul de Kruif

Answer 1

Author of “Microbe Hunters” (1926).

Question 2

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Credited in “Microbe Hunters” as the inventor of the first microscope. Also coined the term “animalcules” based on the organisms he saw swimming in pond/rainwater.

Question 3

Robert Hooke

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Probably the actual inventor of the first microscope. Coined the term “Cells” from his observations of cork. Wrote the book Micrographia.

Question 4

Joseph Lister

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The father of the aseptic technique. Listerine and Listeria both named after him.

Question 5

Lazzaro Spallanzani

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Added on to the nutrient broth experiment, disproving spontaneous generation.Boiled flasks immediately sealing half Naysayers- air is needed for spontaneous generation.

Question 6

Louis Pasteur

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Building off of the works of Spallanzani, Pasteur invented the swan neck flask to disprove spontaneous generation.. Research included rabies, fowl cholera, and anthrax - made vaccines for all 3

Question 7

Charles Chamberland

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An assistant working under Pasteur, responsible for the Pasteur/Chamberland filter. Inoculation of chickens with fowl cholera (dead/dying microorganisms)–> Chickens developed an
immunity.

Question 8

Emile Roux

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Theorized the organism, now known as corynebacterium diphtheria, in causing the diphtheria disease

Question 9

Alfred Nobel

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Namesake of the Nobel prize; Invented dynamite

Question 10

Emil von Behring*

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German working with diphtheria, developed an “antiserum” for the disease. Nobel prize 1901 “first recipient”

Question 11

Robert Koch*

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German physician that worked with TB- most well known for “Koch’s Postulates”.received the Nobel prize for finding the causative agent of TB. Found/cultured anthrax and human cholera.First used of solid media to grow microorganisms. Petri worked for Robert Koch

Question 12

Dmitri Ivanovsky

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Worked with Tobacco Mosaic “disease” (later known as a virus)

Question 13

Joe Jackson Lister

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Combined lenses making the achromatic lens reducing refraction

Question 14

Theobold Smith

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American epidemiologist discovered the causative agent for Texas Cattle fever “Babesia” a protozoan parasite. Also noticed arthropods being vectors for parasites (ticks in this case). His boss David Salmon took credit for Salmonella.

Question 15

Ronald Ross*

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Found malaria in the gut of mosquitos. Avian malaria not human malaria- controlling mosquitos might help control malaria. 1902 Nobel prize

Question 16

Charles Laveran*

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Identified the malaria parasite and first one to say protozoan could cause disease. Suspected mosquitos can transmit the disease. 
Discovered Trypanosomes(African Sleeping Sickness)1907 Nobel prize

Question 17

Giovanni Battista Grassi

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Correctly described human malaria and the lifecycle of the malaria, human roundworm, tapeworm, and falaria worms.

Question 18

David Bruce

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Identified the tsetse fly as being the vector for African Sleeping Sickness. T. Brucei

Question 19

Walter Reed

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Worked on yellow fever in Cuba. Carlos Finlay suspected with the help of Walter Reed that a mosquito would transmit yellow fever. Flavivirus (flavi meaning yellow)

Question 20

Eli Metchnikoff*

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Worked on starfish larvae. Coined the term phagocytosis. . Shared the Nobel prize with Ehrlich

Question 21

Paul Ehrlich

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Discovered stains for granulocytes, discovered mast cells, developed treatment for syphilus (arsenic), was the basis of Gram stain

Question 22

Edward Jenner

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Father of immunology
Advanced age old practice of “variolation” by using cowpox to prevent smallpox infections - Pasteur coined term vaccine based on his work

Question 23

Carolus Lineaus

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Developed Binomial Nomenclature