Microbiology contributors
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- Robin Warren
- bacteria H. pylori causes ulcers. late 90s.
- Stanley Prusiner
- prions late 90s.
- David Baltimore
- 1986 reverse transcription retroviruses (HIV)
- Francis Rous
- link between viruses and cancer. Early 20th century. Chickens; Rous sarcoma.
- Fred Griffith
- 1920s; transformation of bacteria (DNA exchange)
- John Enders
- growth media development; 1950s.
- Jonas Salk
- killed virus polio vaccine. 1950s. 10 year protection.
- Edward Jenner
- 1780 first vaccine. Cowpox prevented smallpox. Also did rabies, anthrax, diptheria, and pertussis vaccine.
- Selman Waksman
- broad-spectrum antibiotics
- Alexander Fleming
- penicillin (narrow-spectrum)
- Paul Ehrlich
- syphilis cure in 1910
- Walter Reed
- yellow fever via mosquitos; turn of the century
- David Bruce
- african sleeping sickness via mosquitos; early 1900s
- Ronald Ross
- mosquitos transmit malaria; early 1900s
- John Snow
- fecally contaminated water transmits cholera; 1849
- Rebecca Lancefield
- classification of b-homolytic strep. 1930.
- Howard Ricketts
- early 1900s; rickettsia and rocky mountain spotted fever (died from this)
- Dmitri Iwanowski
- isolated first virus; tobacco mosaic virus in 1892.
- William Welch
- 1910s. Gas gangrene. John Hopkins University.
- Hans Christian Gram
- gram stain in 1884
- Fanny Eilshemius
- housewife of a Koch chemist; suggested agar as growth medium
- Shibasaburo Kitasato
- cultivated tetanus bacillus. worked for Koch. 1894.
- Frederich Loeffler
- isolated diptheria
- Joseph Lister
- 1867, cleaned everything with phenol
- Elie Metchnikoff
- described phagocytosis; 1907 prize
- Emil von Behring
- worked with diptheria; developed serum therapy. 1905ish.
- Anton von Leeuwenhoek
- observed microbes; 16th century
- Ignatz Semmelweis
- wash your hands! childbirth fever killing many. mid 1800s.
- Oliver Holmes
- 1843 wash your hands. b-hemolytic strep. puperil fever
- Louis Pasteur
- germ theory, rabies vaccine, saved french wine industry and Joey Meister. mid 1800s.
- Robert Koch
- koch\'s postulates. TB and anthrax; early 1900s.
- Golden age of micro
- 1880-1917