Week 1 Table of Dates

Question 1

Publication of the first description of microbes

Answer 1

1665; Robert Hooke

Question 2

Observation of “little animals”

Answer 2

1667; Anton Van Leeuwnhoek

Question 3

Smallpox Vaccination – first scientific validation

Answer 3

1796; Edward Jenner

Question 4

Advocating Handwashing in the prevention of the spread of diseases

Answer 4

1850; Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 5

Spontaneus Generation disproved

Answer 5

1861; Louis Pasteur

Question 6

Publication of the paper supporting the germ theory of disease

Answer 6

1862; Louis Pasteur

Question 7

Practice of Antiseptic Surgery

Answer 7

1867; Joseph Lister

Question 8

Discovery of the B. anthracis which became the first proof of germ theory

Answer 8

1876; Robert Koch

Question 9

Utilization of solid culture media for bacterial growth

Answer 9

1881; Robert Koch

Question 10

Outlined Koch’s Postulate

Answer 10

1882; Robert Koch

Question 11

Developed of Acid-fast stain

Answer 11

1882; Paul Erlich

Question 12

Gram Stain developed

Answer 12

1884; Hans Christian Gram

Question 13

First Rabies Vaccination

Answer 13

1885; Louis Pasteur

Question 14

Invention of Petri Dish

Answer 14

1887; Richard J. Petri

Question 15

Discovery of Viruses

Answer 15

1892; Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovski

Question 16

Zoonosis – first described

Answer 16

1893; T. Smith, F. I. Kilbourne

Question 17

Viral dependence on living host cells for reproduction recognized

Answer 17

1899; Martinus Beijerinck

Question 18

Proof of mosquitoes carry the agent of yellow fever

Answer 18

1900; Walter Reed

Question 19

Discovered the cure for syphilis

Answer 19

1910; Paul Erlich

Question 20

Discovery of Penicillin

Answer 20

1928; Alexander Fleming

Question 21

Proposed and built the DNA Model

Answer 21

1953; J. Watson, F. Crick

Question 22

Development of the DNA sequencing method

Answer 22

1977; W. Gilbert, F. Sanger

Question 23

Invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Answer 23

1983; Kary Mulis

Question 24

Publication of the first Microbial genomic sequence

Answer 24

1995; The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)