FOOD MICROBIOLOGY - LESSON 2

Edward Jenner

The First and Greatest Success of Immunization

Agostino Maria Bassi

Pioneer of Studying Contagious Diseases

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

Savior of Mothers

Joseph Lister

Pioneer of Antisepsis

Heinrich Anton de Bary

Pioneer of Mycology

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen

Pioneer of Leprosy Studies

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Discoverer of the Malaria Parasite

Martinus Willem Beijerinck

Pioneer of General Microbiology

Walter Reed

Yellow Fever Fighter

Emil von Behring

Pioneer of Serology

Erwin F Smith

Father of Plant Pathology

David Bruce

Pioneer of Veterinary Microbiology

Kitasato Shibasaburo

First to Isolate Clostridium tetani and a Pioneer of Serology

Alexandre Yersin

Pioneer of Plague Fighter

William C Frazier

Pioneer of Dairy and Food Microbiologist

Ira Lawrence Baldwin

Pioneer of Agricultural Microbiology and Education

Cornelis B van Niel

Educator and Pioneer of Bacterial Photosynthesis and General Microbiology

Rene Jules Dubos

Pioneer of Bacterial Antibiotics and Environmental Microbiology

Herman J Phaff

Pioneer of Yeast Biology

Harold Boyd Woodruff

Antibiotics Hunter and Distinguished Soil Microbiologist

Peter Charles Doherty

Pioneer of Immunology

Acetobacter aceti

In 1898, Martinus Beijerinck renamed it

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Charles Cogniard-Latour

He suggested that growth of yeasts was associated with alcohol fermentation.

Emil Christian Hansen

He used pure cultures of yeasts to ferment beer.

Marie von Ermengem

She isolated Bacillus botulinus (Clostridium botulinum) from contaminated meat and proved that it caused botulism.