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Aristotle |
He mentioned that simple invertebrates could come from spontaneous generation. |
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Francisco Redi |
In 1668, he demonstrated that maggots could not arise spontaneously from decaying meat |
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Observed the sealed flask and asserted that organic matter could give rise to life |
Francesco Redi |
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Improved Needham's experiment and observed that no growth took place as long as the flasks remained sealed |
Lazzaro Spallanzani |
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He challenged the concept of spontaneous generation with biogenesis |
Rudolf Virchow |
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Biogenesis - Theodore Schwann |
He observed that no growth occurred which contains nutrient solution after allowing air to pass through a heated tube |
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Noticed that no growth took place after allowing air to pass through a sterile cotton |
Heinrich Schroeder and Theodore von Dusch |
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Who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation |
Louis Pasteur |
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What vaccine did Pasteur developed in 1881 and 1885 |
Anthrax (1881) Rabies (1885) |
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John Tyndall |
Showed that dust carry germs that could contaminate the broth |
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Who discovered the bacteria that could withstand a series of boiling because if heat resistant structure known as endospores |
Ferdinand Cohn |
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Showed the importance of oxygen in life |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier |
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Biogenesis |
Rudolf Virchow Theodor Schwann Heinrich Schroder and Theodor Van Dusch John Tyndall Ferdinand Cohn Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier |
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Explained that yeast cells are responsible for the conversion of sugar to alcohol |
Theodor Schwann |
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Describe that certain microorganisms known as yeast convert sugar to alcohol in the absence of air, known as fermentation |
Louis Pasteur |
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Stated that the souring and spoilage of wine |
Pasteur |
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He demonstrated that routine hand washing can prevent the spread of disease |
Ignaz Semmelweis |
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He introduced the system of antiseptic surgery |
Joseph Lister |
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Promotes the hand washing before and after an operation |
Joseph Lister |
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First to show irrefutable proof that bacteria indeed causes diseases |
Robert Koch |
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Discovered Bacillus Anthracis 1876, causative agent of anthrax and Mycobacterium tubercolosis 1882 |
Robert Koch |
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First to cultivate bacteria on boiled potatoes, gelatin, meat extract, and protein |
Robert Koch |
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He introduced the use of culture media |
Walther Hesse |
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Fanny Hesse |
Suggested the use of agar, a solidifying agent, in the preparation of culture media |
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Developed petri dish |
Julius Richard Petri |
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They developed the enrichment-culture technique and the use of selective media |
Martinus Beijerinck and Sergei Winogradsky |
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Introduced concept of vaccination |
Edward Jenner |
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Who used the term "vaccine" for an attuenated culture |
Pasteur |
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Able to proved that when attuenated strains are introduced into a healthy host |
Louis Pasteur and Pierre Roux |
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Charles Chamberland |
Created a porcelain bacterial filter and developed the anthrax vaccine together with Pasteur |
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He prepared antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus |
Emil von Behring |
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First to describe the cells of the immune system and the process of phagocytosis |
Elie Metchnikoff |
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He discovered the streptomycin and neomyomycin antibiotics |
Selman Waksman |
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Father of antibiotics |
Selman Waksman |
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Accidentally discovered the antibiotic penicillin (Penicillium notatum) |
Alexander Fleming |
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Discovered lysozyme |
Alexander Fleming |
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Made the purification process for penicillin and the clinical trails to humans |
Howard Floret and Ernst Chain |
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Discovered salvarsan (arsphenamine)for the treatment of syphillis |
Paul Ehrlich |
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Use of chemical substances in the treatment of diseases |
Chemotherapy |
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Refers to the chemical treatment of noninfectious disease such as cancer |
Chemotherapy |
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Fermentation and Pasteurization |
Theodor Schwann and Louis Pasteur |
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Theory of antiseptis |
Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister |