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Significant events in Microbiology

1676

Anton van Leeuwenhoek reported the discovery of micro-organisms.[1]

1862

Louis Pasteur demonstrated that fermentation is caused by the growth of micro-organisms, and the emergent growth of bacteria in nutrient broths is due not to spontaneous generation, but rather to biogenesis. [2]

1876

Robert Koch was the first to demonstrate that bacteria Bacillus anthracis was the germ that cause the disease Anthrax. [4]

1884

Hans Christian Gram developed a new staining technique which will become the standard in bacteriology. [5]

1887

Petri Dish has been invented by R.J. Petri, a German bacteriologist. [6]

1898

Martinus Beijerinck discovered viruses and developped enrichment culture techniques. [3]

1928

Penicillin antibiotics were the first drugs to be effective against many previously serious diseases, such as syphilis and were discovered by Alexander Fleming. [7]

1937

Edouard Chatton developed the subdivision between eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems of cellular organisation. [7]

1953

Lowff exposed the fundamental characteristic which differentiates bacteria and viruses [7].


  1. Biblia Naturae (2011, reproduction of a book published before 1923, by Jan Swammerdam (Author) , Herman Boerhaave (Author) , Hieronymus David Gaubius (Creator), Nabu Press, ISBN-10: 1272225054
  2. Wainwright, Milton (2003). An Alternative View of the Early History of Microbiology. "Advances in Applied Microbiology Volume 52". Advances in applied microbiology. Advances in Applied Microbiology 52: 333–55.
  3. Johnson J (2001) [1998]. "Martinus Willem Beijerinck". APSnet. American Phytopathological Society. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
  4. Koch, R. (1876) "Untersuchungen über Bakterien: V. Die Ätiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begründet auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus anthracis" (Investigations into bacteria: V. The etiology of anthrax, based on the ontogenesis ofBacillus anthracis), Cohns Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen, vol. 2, no. 2, pages 277–310
  5. Gram, HC (1884). "Über die isolierte Färbung der Schizomyceten in Schnitt- und Trockenpräparaten". Fortschritte der Medizin (in German) 2: 185–189..
  6. Peter Voswinckel (2001) (in German). "Petri, Julius Richard ". In Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). 20. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 263 et seq.
  7. Bactériologie Médicale, Azèle Ferron, Edition 1994, ISBN 2-85510.038.0

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