P1. developmental notes & its key scientists & year Flashcards
first description of microbes
Robert Hooke
1665
little animals
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
1667
Smallpox Vaccination first scientific validation
Edward Jenner
1796
Handwashing advocate
Ignaz Semmelweis
1850
spontaneous generation disproved
Louis Pasteur
1861
germ theory of disease (he published a support paper about this)
Louis Pasteur
1862
Practice of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister
1867
- Bacillus Anthracis
- FIRST PROOF of germ theory
Robert Koch
1876
utilization of SOLID CULTURE MEDIA for bacterial growth
Robert Koch
1881
Koch Postulate
Robert Koch
1882
developed ACID-FAST STAIN
Paul Erlich
developed GRAM STAINING
Hans Christian Gram
1884
autoclave
Charles Chamberland
1884
FIRST RABIES VACCINATION
Louis Pasteur
1885
PETRI DISH to culture microorganisms
Richard J. Petri
1887
BACTERIAL FLAGELLA
motile or non-motile
Friedrich Loeffer
1890
discovered VIRUSES
Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovski
1892
described ZOONOSIS
T. Smith
F.I. Kilbourne
1893
ENRICHMENT CULTURE MEDIUM
Martinus Beijerinck
1898
VIRAL DEPENDENCE for reproduction recognized
Martinus Beijerinck
1899
YELLOW FEVER from mosquitoes
Walter Reed
1900
cure for SYPHILIS
Paul Erlich
1910
discovered PENICILLIN
Alexander Fleming
1928
proposed & built the DNA model
J. Watson
F. Crick
1953
developed the DNA sequencing method
W. Gilbert
F. Sanger
1977
invention of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)
Kary Mulis
1983
publication of the FIRST MICROBIAL GENOMIC SEQUENCE
The Institute of Genomic Research
1995
ANAEROBIC JARS
McIntosh & Fildes