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BACT 211 > P1 | PIONEERS IN THE SCIENCE OF MICROBIOLOGY (LECTURE) > Flashcards

P1 | PIONEERS IN THE SCIENCE OF MICROBIOLOGY (LECTURE) Flashcards

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1665 | Publication of the first description of microbes

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Rober Hooke

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1667 | observation of “little animals”

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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1796 | Smallpox Vaccination - first scientific validation

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Edward Jenner

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1850 | Advocating Handwashing in the prevention of the spread of disease

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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1861 | Spontaneous generation disproved

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Louis Pasteur

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1862 | Publication of the paper supporting the germ theory of disease

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Louis Pasteur

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1867 | Practice of Antiseptic Surgery

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Joseph Lister

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1876 | Discovery of bacillus anthracis which became the first proof of germ theory

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Robert Koch

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1881 | Utilization of solid culture media for bacterial growth

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Robert Koch

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1882 | Outlined Koch’s Postulate

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Robert Koch

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Development of Acid-fast stain

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Paul Erlich

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1884 | Gram stain developed

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Hans Christian Gram

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1885 | First rabies vaccination

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Louis pasteur

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1887 | Invention of the Petri Dish

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Richard . Petri

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1892 | Discovery of Viruses

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Dmitri Losifovich Ivanovski

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1893 | Zoonosis -first described

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T. Smith, F.I. Kilbourne

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1899 | Viral dependence on living host cells for reproduction recognized

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Martinus Beijerinck

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1900 | proof the mosquitoes carry the agent of yellow fever

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Walter Reed

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1910 | Discovered the cure for Syphilis

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Paul Erlich

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1928 | discovery of penicillin

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Alexander Fleming

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1953 | proposed and built the DNA model

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J. Watson, F. Crick

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1977 | Development of the DNA sequencing method

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W. Gilbert, F. Sanger

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1983 | Invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

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Kary Mulis

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1995 | Publication of the first microbial genomic sequence

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The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

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ADDITIONAL PIONEERS

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Enrichment medium (1898)

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Beijerinck

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Autoclave (1884)

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Chamberland

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Anaerobic jar

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Mcintosh & Fildes

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demonstrated the presence of bacterial flagella (1890)

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Friedrich Loeffer

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