Pioneers In The History Of Microbiology

Question 1

Father of microbiology
1st microbiologist and 1st to describe bacteria

Answer 1

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Question 2

Father of Epidemiology

Answer 2

John Snow

Question 3

Father of Taxonomy

Answer 3

Carl von Linne

Question 4

Father of Handwashing / Hospital Hygiene

Answer 4

Ignaz Senelweis

Question 5

Father of Virology (discovery of virus)
Use of enrichment and selective media

Answer 5

Martinus Beijerinck

Question 6

Discovered HIV that causes AIDS

Answer 6

Luc Montagnier

Question 7

Developed Gram stain technique

Answer 7

Hans Christian Gram

Question 8

Developed petri dish

Answer 8

Julius Richard Petri

Question 9

Phenol as antimicrobial

Answer 9

Joseph Lister

Question 10

proposed heat in killing bacteria (aseptic
technique) and pasteurization

Answer 10

Louis Pasteur

Question 11

Germ theory; Anthrax & Tuberculosis

Answer 11

Robert Koch

Question 12

Endospore survival on boiling

Answer 12

Ferdinand Cohn

Question 13

Theory of chemolithotrophs; use of
enrichment and selective media

Answer 13

Sergei Winogradsky

Question 14

Developed >40 vaccines: against Hepatitis
A and B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella,
S. meningitidis, S. pneumonias

Answer 14

Maurice Hilleman

Question 15

Inventor of PCR

Answer 15

Karry Mullis

Question 16

use of agar as culture media instead of gelatin

Answer 16

Fanny Hesse