Timeline: Milestones in the Golden Age of Microbiology

Question 1

1857 - Fermentation

Answer 1

Pasteur

Question 2

1861 - Disproved Spontaneous Generation

Answer 2

Pasteur

Question 3

1864 - Pasteurization

Answer 3

Pasteur

Question 4

1867 - Aseptic Surgery

Answer 4

Lister

Question 5

1876 - Germ Theory of Disease

Answer 5

Koch

Question 6

1879 - Neisseria Gonorrhoeae

Answer 6

Neisser

Question 7

1881 - Pure Cultures

Answer 7

Koch

Question 8

1881 - Yellow Fever

Answer 8

Finlay

Question 9

1882 - Mycobacterium Tubercolosis

Answer 9

Koch

Question 10

1882 - Agar (solid) Media

Answer 10

Hess

Question 11

1883 - Vibrio Cholerae

Answer 11

Koch

Question 12

1884 - Phagocytosis

Answer 12

Metchnikoff

Question 13

1884 - Gram-staining Procedure

Answer 13

Gram

Question 14

1884 - Escherichia Coli

Answer 14

Escherich

Question 15

1887 - Petri Dish

Answer 15

Petri

Question 16

1890 - Diphtheria Antitoxin

Answer 16

Von Bering

Question 17

1890 - Theory of Immunity

Answer 17

Ehrlich

Question 18

1892 - Sulfur Cycle

Answer 18

Winogradsky

Question 19

1898 - Shigella Dysenteriae

Answer 19

Shiga

Question 20

1908 - Syphilis Treatment

Answer 20

Ehrlich

Question 21

1910 - Trypanosoma Cruzi

Answer 21

Chagas

Question 22

1911 - Tumor-causing Virus (1966 Nobel Prize)

Answer 22

Rous

Question 23

1822-1895 - Demonstrated that life did not arise spontaneously from nonliving matter.

Answer 23

Louis Pasteur

Question 24

1827-1912 - Performed surgery under aseptic conditions using phenol. Proved that microbes caused surgical wound infections.

Answer 24

Joseph Lister

Question 25

1843-1910 - Established experimental steps for directly linking a specific microbe to a specific disease.

Answer 25

Robert Koch