History of Microbiology

Question 1

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 1

first person to see bacteria, very simple microscope

Question 2

John Snow

Answer 2

epidemiology and the cholera epidemic

Question 3

Edward Jenner

Answer 3

smallpox vaccine using cowpox

Question 4

Francesco Redi

Answer 4

isproved spontaneous generation with flies from meat, father of scientific method

Question 5

Alexander Fleming

Answer 5

discovered penicillin

Question 6

Joseph Lister

Answer 6

asepsis with phenol mists

Question 7

Robert Koch

Answer 7

cultivation of bacteria on solid media (agar) as well as Petri dishes and staining

Question 8

Selman Waksman

Answer 8

discovered streptomycin

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

first to propose spontaneous generation theory

Question 10

Christian Gram

Answer 10

first differential stain

Question 11

Louis Pasteur

Answer 11

disproved spontaneous generation with swan-necked flasks, rabies vaccine

Question 12

Ignaz Semmelweis

Answer 12

asepsis by handwashing in obstetric patients

Question 13

Paul Ehrlich

Answer 13

looked for a “magic bullet” to kill pathogen and not harm host