History and Scope of Microbiology

  • Aristotle
    322

    Aristotle

    Was a Greek philosopher that studyed the world.
  • Girolamo Fracastaro
    Aug 24, 1553

    Girolamo Fracastaro

    Promoted a scientific germ theory
  • Francesco Redi

    Francesco Redi

    Challenged the theory of spontanious generation
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Improved the microscope and was also considered the father of micobiology.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    Was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine
  • John Needham

    John Needham

    He experimented with sponantious generation.
  • Lazzaro Spallanzani

    Lazzaro Spallanzani

    spontaneous generation of microorganisms, that living creatures could develop from lifeless matter
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    He stained microbes which let him photograph them under a microscope. Allowing him to study them closer, which eventually led him to prove that every disease was caused by a different germ.
  • Ignaz Semmelwis

    Ignaz Semmelwis

    Recognized the contagious nature of puerperal fever and promote steps to eliminate it.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    The development of the cell theoy
  • Theodor Von Dusch

    Theodor Von Dusch

    Demonstrated that a filter made of cotten-wool was effective at removing microbes from the air.
  • John Tyndall

    John Tyndall

    he studied Diamagnetism
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Pasteurization is the process of heating a food or liquid to a specific temperature for a length of time and then cooling off immediately. Causing microbial growth in food to slow down
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Vaccine is the addministration of antgenic material to stimulate an idividuals immune system to develop a immunity to a pathogen.
  • Charles Chamberland

    Charles Chamberland

    He made a fiter that removed bacteria from a solution
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    He promoted the idea of sterile surgery and also to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds, which led to a reduction in post-operative infections and made surgery safer for patients.
  • Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod,& Maclyn McCarty

    Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod,& Maclyn McCarty

    Conducted an experiment demonstration tht DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation.
  • Friedrich Schroder

    Friedrich Schroder

    was a german composer.