Chapter 1: Historical Figures
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Who was the prehistoric human found with parasites and Lyme disease who treated himself with laxatives?
Otzi the Iceman
Who was the “Father of Western medicine” that natural causes caused diseases?
Hippocrates
Who observed that survivors of the Athenian plague developed immunity after the infection?
Thucydides
Who proposed that diseases can be caused by minute creatures?
Marcus Terentius Varro
Who was the first to describe cells?
Robert Hooke
Who was the first to observe microbes and described them as animalcules?
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation, proved fermentation is caused by microbes, and developed pasteurization and rabies vaccine?
Louis Pasteur
Who established the connection between microbes and diseases and identified the causes of anthrax, TB, and cholera?
Robert Koch
Who developed a taxonomic system and proposed for animals, plants, and minerals?
Carolus Linnaeus
Who proposed the addition of Protista and Monera?
Ernst Haeckel
Who proposed super-kingdoms and fungi?
Robert Whittaker
Who created a phylogenetic tree using small subunit robosomal RNA
Carl Woese and George Fox
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