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Microbiology
You Know we got them goods
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Watson and crick | James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the DNA molecule which is a double helix |
| John Snow | John Snow was and English physician and he is accredited with being the father of modern epidemiology with his following of the cholera outbreak in England in 1854/lab techniqes |
| Robert Koch | Robert Koch is famous for isolating bacillus Anthracis(1877), the Tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and Vibrio Cholerae (1883) and for the developmen of Koch's postulates. He is considered one of the founders of microbiology |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Anton Van Leewenhoek was the first person to observe microorganisms in his self made microscope. considered first microbiologist |
| Robert Hooke | Robert Hooke used his microscope to observe cork, they were rectangular and empty so therefore he named them cells after jails |
| Edward Jenner | Jenner was born in 1749 and is the father of immunology by eradicating smallpox |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | Ignaz was a Hungarian physician who showed washing hands reduces infection |
| Paul Ehrlich | He established exacting standards for measring the content of antioxins. He was the first to develop chemotherapy and developed the first medicaments to treat syphilis. he was awarded the nobel prize in medicine in 1908 |
| Francesco redi | disproved spontaneous generation |
| Louis Pasteur | Disproved spontaneous generation/ sterilization techniques |