Scientists in MB

• Robert Hooke


  first to describe microorganisms, coined the term cells
• Antoni von Leeuwenhoek


  first to describe bacterial cells "wee animalcules"
• Ferdinand Cohn


  defined bacteria's characteristics, reproduction, and life style. Established journal of bacteriology and practices
• Louis Pasteur


  microbes and yeast production from fermentation, disproof of spontaneous generation, developed vaccines to rabies, chicken cholera, and anthrax (flask experiment)
• Robert Koch


  developed methods for pure cultures, discovered cause of tuberculosis (germ theory of disease), mice experiment w diseased cells
• Martinus Beijerinck


  microbial selection, described viruses
• Sergei Winogradsky


  developed concept of chemolithotrophy, discovered several species