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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].

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