Important People Flashcards
Made the earliest MICROSCOPIC(by Galileo) observations on bees and weevils
Francesco Stelluti (1625&1630)
- FIRST TRUE MICROBIOLOGIST
- “animalcules”
- First to accurately observe and describe microorganism
- Used his self-made single lens with 50-300x magnification
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Life arouse from non-living matter
Spontaneous generation
Simpler invertebrates could arise from spontaneous generation
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
- maggots do not arise spontaneously from decaying meat
- serious blow to belief of nonlife to life
Francesco (1626-1697)
Proposed that ORGANIC MATTER possessed “VITAL FORCE” that could give rise to life
-boiled mutton broth ➡️ cloudy(microorganisms)
John Needham (1748)
Proved Needham using boiled water and seeds
“No growth” as long as it is sealed
Lazzaro Spallanzi (1729-1799)
Living cells can rise can rise only from PREEXISTING living cells
Biogenesis
Biogenesis
Rudolf Virchow (1858)
Air pass through a red -hot tube didn’t produce growth
Theodore Schwann (1810-1882)
No growth after allowing air to pass through sterile cotton wool placed in a flask of heat-sterilized medium
Goerg Friedrich Schroder and Theodore Von Dusch
1 resolve the issue of spontaneous generation
2 air carries microorganisms
3 microorganisms can be present on nonliving
4 HEAT STERILIZATION
5 living did not came from nonliving
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Heat resistant bacterial spores
Ferdinand Cohn
Tyndillization: 3 day sterilization
*dust carry germs that contaminate sterile broth
John Tyndall (1820-1893)
Pasteur’s Contribution to Science
1 disproved spontaneous generation
2 develop vaccines against Anthrax (1881) and rabies (1885)
3 improved the wine industry (theory of fermentation) : In the absence of air yeasts convert sugar to alcohol
Created a porcelain bacterial filter (1884)
Develop anthrax vaccine with Pasteur
Charles Chamberland
The Germ Theory of Disease
Microorganisms might cause disease
ANTISEPTIC SYSTEM OF SURGERY
use phenol for treating surgical wounds and spray phenol over the surgical area
Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
1 first proof that bacteria cause disease
2 discovered BACILLUS ANTHRACIS: causative agent of anthrax (1876-1877)
3 discovered MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS (1882)
4 first to culture bacteria in boiled potatoes, gelatin and used meat extracts and protein digests for cultivation
5 develop culture media for observing growth of bacteria isolates from human body
Robert Koch (1843-1910)