NAMES Flashcards
Robert Hooke
Discovered microorganisms (fungi)
Compound Microscope
“cells when observing cork”
Wrote book micrographia
Antonie van Leeuwenhook
Discovered bacteria
Simple microscope
“animalcules”
Edward Jenner
Vaccination (small pox)
Louis Pasteur
Mechanism of fermentation, defeat of spontaneous generation, rabies and other vaccines, principles of immunisation
Joseph Lister
methods for preventing infection during surgeries
Ferdinand Cohn
Discovery of endospores
Robert Koch
Koch’s Postulates, Pure culture microbiology, discovery of causative agents of TB and cholera
Sergei Winogradsky
Chemolithotrophy, Chemoautotrophy, Nitrogen fixation, sulphur bacteria
Martinus Beijernick
Enrichment culture technique, discovery of metabolic groups of bacteria, concept of a virus
Charles la Touche
child asthma in damp rooms
Howard Florey
Studies mucous
Ernst Chain
worked on lysozyme
Norman Heatley
Tried to purify penicillin
Aristotle
abiogenesis
Francesco Redi
Meat experiment- maggots developed from eggs laid by flies