HISTORY Flashcards
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Hans Jansen developed the first compound microscope.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered animalcules.
Otto Friedrich Muller produced the first classification of bacteria.
Edward Jenner introduced the smallpox immunization through cowpox inoculation.
Theodor Schwann and Matthis Jakob Schleiden introduced the cell theory.
Rudolf Virchow proposed the theory of biogenesis.
Louis Pasteur used the aerobic and anaerobic terminologies in describing the metabolism of yeast.
Joseph Lister published his work on antiseptic surgery.
Ferdinand Cohn used the genus name Bacillus in classifying bacteria.
Louis Pasteur described the weak strain of organisms as attenuated in developing vaccines.
Robert Koch cultured bacteria on gelatin.
Louis Pasteur developed the anthrax vaccine.
Robert Koch discovered the tubercle bacilli.
Koch’s postulates were first published.
Élie Metchnikoff described phagocytosis.
Autoclave was developed.
Hans Christian Gram introduced Gram stain.
Louis Pasteur produced the rabies vaccine.
Julius Richard Petri introduced the use of the Petri dish.
Emil von Behring prepared antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus.
Jules Bordet discovered the complement.
Ronald Ross showed that malarial parasites are carried by mosquitoes
Walter Reed proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.
Karl Landsteiner discovered the blood group system.
Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffman showed that the Treponema pallidum causes syphilis.
Recognition of the role of protozoa in the disease process
Sigurd Orla-Jensen established the importance of including the physiologic characteristics of bacteria in their classification
Paul Ehrlich developed a chemotherapeutic agent for syphilis.
First edition of Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology was published. Subsequent editions were titled Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology.
Erst Ruska developed the first transmission electron microscope.
Edouard Chatton introduced living organisms as either prokaryotes or eukaryotes.
Selman Waksman discovered streptomycin.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.
Max Theiler developed the yellow fever vaccine.
Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA.
Rosalyn Yalow and Solomon Berson developed the radioimmunoassay.
