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Microbiology.
Microbiologists and their Achievements
Question | Answer |
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Billroth | 1874. Discovery of round bacteria in chains |
Koch | 1876. Identification of Bacillus anthracis as causative agent of anthrax |
Koch | 1878. Differentiation of staphylococci |
Hansen. | Discovery of Mycobacterium leprae as causative agent of leprosy |
Neisser | 1880. Discovery of Neisseria gonorrhoeae as causative agent of gonorrhea |
Laveran and Ross | 1880. Identification of life cycle of malarial parasites in red blood cells of infected humans |
Eberth | 1880. Discovery of Salmonella typhi as causative agent of typhoid fever |
Pasteur and Sternberg | 1880. Isolation and culturing of pneumonia cocci from saliva |
Koch | 1881. Animal immunization with attenuated anthrax bacilli |
Leistikow and Loeffler | 1882. Cultivation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
Koch | 1883. Discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as causative agent of tuberculosis |
Klebs | 1883. Culturing of Corynebacterium diptheriae and toxin as causative agent of diptheria |
Loeffler | 1884. Culturing of Corynebacterium diptheriae |
Rosenbach | 1884. pure culturing of streptococci and staphylococci |
Escherich | 1885. Identification of Escherichia coli as a natural inhabitant of the human gut |
Bumm | 1885. Pure culturing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
Flugge | 1886. Staining to differentiate bacteria |
Fraenckel | 1886. Streptococcus pneumoniae related to pneumonia |
Weichselbaum | 1887. Neisseria meningitidis related to meningitis |
Bruce | 1887. Identification of Brucella melitensis as causative agent of brucellosis in cattle |
Petri | 1887. Invention of the culture dish |
Roux and Yersin | 1888. Discovery of action of diptheria toxin |
Charrin and Roger | 1889. Discovery of agglutination of bacteria in immune system |
Kitasato | 1889. Discovery that Clostridium tetani produces tetanus toxin |
Pfeiffer | 1890. Identification of Pfeiffer bacillus, Haemophilus influenzae |
von Behring and Kitasato | 1890. Immunization of animals with diptheria toxin |
Ivanovski | 1892. Discovery of filterability of tobacco mosaic virus |
Roux and Kitasato | 1894. Identification of Yersinia pestis as causative agent of the bubonic plague |
Pfeiffer | 1894. Discovery of bacteriolysis in immune serum |
Bordet | 1895. Discovery of alexin [complement] and hemolysis |
Widal and Grunbaum | 1896. Development of diagnostic test based on agglutination of typhoid bacilli by immune serum |
van Ermengem | 1897. Discovery of Clostridium botulinum as causative agent of botulism |
Kraus | 1897. Discovery of precipitins |
Ehrlich | 1897. Formulation of side chain theory of antibody formation |
Shiga | 1898. Discovery of Shigella dysenteriae as causative agent of dysentery |
Loeffler and Frosch | 1898. Discovery of filterability of virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease |
Beijerinck | 1899. Discovery of intracellular reproducton of tobacco mosaic virus |
Bordet and Gengou | Identificaton of Bordetella pertussis as causative agent of whooping cough; development of complement fixation test |
Reed and colleagues | 1901. Identification of virus that causes yellow fever |
Portier and Richet | 1902. Work on anaphylaxis |
Remlinger and Riffat-Bey | 1903. Identification of virus that causes rabies |
Schaudinn and Hoffmann | 1905. Identification of Treponema pallidum as causative agent of syphilis |
Wasserman, Neisser, and Bruck | 1906. Development of Wasserman reaction for syphilis antibodies |
Asburn and Craig | 1907. Identification of virus that causes dengue fever |
Flexner and Lewis | 1909. Identification of virus that causes poliomyelitis |
Twort | 1915. Discovery of viruses that infect bacteria |
d'Herelle | 1917. Independent rediscovery of viruses that infect bacteria [bacteriophages] |
Ross | 1902. Malaria |
Fleming, Chain, and Florey | 1945. Penicillin |
Waksman | 1952. Streptomycin |
Watson, Crick, and Wilkins | 1962. Structure of DNA |
Holley, Khorana, and Nirenberg | 1968. Genetic code |