Scientists with Their Inventions Flashcards
The First Microbiologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723):
The First to Observe the Existence of Microorganisms, the first word cell was used
Robert Hooke (1635–1703):
Fighting Against the Odds
Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799):
The First and Greatest Success of Immunization
Edward Jenner (1749–1823):
Savior of Mothers
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865):
The Master of Microbiology
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895):
Pioneer of Bacteriology
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898):
Pioneer of Antisepsis
Joseph Lister (1827–1912):
Pioneer of Mycology
Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888):
___ traced the cholera outbreak to a common water supply in London.
John Snow
Pioneer of Leprosy Studies
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841–1912):
The Great Medical Microbiologist
Robert Koch (1843–1910):
Phagocytosis and Immunology, Father of Natural Immunity
Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916):
Pioneer of General Microbiology
Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931):
perfected the first device known as a microscope.
1609 Galileo Galilei
___ and ___ are noted as the first men to develop the concept of the compound microscope.
Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey
invented a simple pair of nesting glass dishes, ideal for keeping specimens of growing bacteria sterile—the ‘Petri dish.’
1887, Julius Petri
used the small opening underneath his staircase as an incubator.
Louis Pasteur
are used for the growth and storage of bacterial cultures
Microbiological incubators
was a German chemist and teacher. He invented the Bunsen burner for his research in isolating chemical substances
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (March 31, 1811-August 16, 1899)
is credited with the invention of the beaker, but in reality, the beaker was invented by Beaker in 1846
Richard Conderbnerellos
These inverted conical flasks were invented in 1861 by a German chemist and have been used ubiquitously in laboratories throughout the world.
Erlenmeyer Flasks
He was the first chemist to synthesize tyrosine, guanidine, creatine, and creatinine.
Emil Richard August Carl Erlenmeyer (1825–1909)
The graduated cylinder was invented by ___ in the year of 1909, in order to help with measuring the volume of a liquid.
Albert Einstein
The pipette was invented by ___ in the year 1979, in order to extract and make measuring liquid easier.
Warren Gilson
___ of Newark, New Jersey invented the Magnetic Stirrer on 6 June 1944.
Arthur Rosinger
In 1864, ___ invented the first centrifuge-type machine, which was used in the dairy industry to separate milk and cream on a large scale.
Antonin Prandtl
a Swiss physician and biologist, was the first to apply centrifugation in the lab.
Friedrich Miescher,
A ___ is a laboratory device that employs a rotating magnetic field to cause a stir bar (or flea) immersed in a liquid to spin very quickly, thus stirring it.
magnetic stirrer or magnetic mixer
was a Swedish professor of astronomy who devised the Celsius thermometer
Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
was an American physiologist who invented the microelectrode in the 1930’s.
Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857-1945)
A ___ is a small device that electrically (or chemically) stimulates a living cell and records the electrical activity within that cell.
microelectrode
developed the first burette on 1791. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac invented a more complete burette later.
Francois Antoine Henri Descroizilles
The autoclave was invented by ___ in 1884
Charles Chamberland
was the first person to extract oxygen gas from the air, making it a commercially viable product and thus launching the industrial gas industry. He also developed modern refrigeration.
Carl von Linde
was a German physicist who described this new form of radiation that allowed him to photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields
Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen
was a research physician who formulated a vaccine against the devastating disease of polio.
Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
, also called infantile paralysis, had crippled thousands of children during an epidemic that hit the world during the 1940s and 1950s.
Poliomyelitis
