NAMES Microbiology: Microbial World & You (Ch 1, Tortora)

Spallanzani

Person who heated nutrients after being sealed, no microbes grew (support for biogenesis)

Needham

Person who heated nutrients before pouring into covered flasks, microbes grew (support for spontaneous generation)

Redi

Person who demonstrated that maggots do not rise spontaneously from decaying meat

Koch

Person credited with the germ theory of disease
- streaking for isolation
- mycobacterium tuberculosis

Ehrlich

Person who speculated there was a "magic bullet" to cure syphillis. Used the 1s synthetic chemotherapy agent salvarsan to treat his syphillis patients

Watson and Crick

Researcher credited for discovering the DNA structure

Hooke

Person who made 1st microscope
Person who 1st observed and named plants' cells
"little boxes

van Leeuwenhoek

Person who was 1st to observe living cells - "animalcules" which were bacteria

Linnaeus

Person credited for the nomenclature for organisms- genus species- 1735

Jenner

Person who created the 1st vaccine (smallpox)
vaccination

Pasteur

Person who
- defined equation for fermentation
- disproved spontaneous generation via swan neck flask
- pasteurization & fermentation of yeast
- a particular silkworm disease was caused by a protozoan

Lister

Person who endorsed aseptic surgery

Gram

Person credited for the gram-staining procedure

Escherich

Person credited with discovery of E. coli

Iwanowski

Person who discovered that viruses could be filtered

Berg

Person who spliced animal DNA to bacteria DNA

Fleming

Person who discovered penicillin

Beadle & Tatum

Researcher who showed that genes contain the code for enzymes

Avery, MacLeod & McCarty

Person who proved that DNA is the hereditary material

Woese

Credited for creating the 3 Domain system of living organisms by looking at rRNA, he discovered that ribosomes are different between these groups

Weizmann

Person who used bacteria to produce acetone

Virchow

Person who said that living cells arise from pre-existing living cells; "cell theory

Jacob & Monod

Person who discovered how DNA controls protein synthesis in a cell

Lancefield

Person who proposed a classification system for streptococci based on the antigens in their cell walls

Lederberg & Tatum

Person who discovered that DNA can be transferred from one bacteria to another

Stanley

First person to characterize a virus

Schwann & Schleiden

Person who suggested that cells were the basic unit of life - one part of the overall cell theory

Bassi

Person who showed that particular a silkworm disease was caused by a fungus

Semmelweis

Person who advocated hand-washing to prevention transmission from one patient to another