microbiologist

• Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek 


  was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists
• Louis Pasteur 


  was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him
• Robert Hooke


  was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited as one of the first two scientists to discover microorganisms using a compound microscope that he built himself
• Alexander Fleming 


  was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin
• Heinrich Koch


  was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology.
• Frederick Griffith


  was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia
• Alexandre Yersin


  French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honor: Yersinia pestis
• Edward Jenner


  was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.