General Micro - Past Microbiologists

_____ is credited with naming cells and describing the first observations of fruiting structures of molds.

Robert Hooke

_____ is credited with recording the first observations of bacteria.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

_____ disproved spontaneous generation, described immunity to chicken cholera, identified the cause of fermentation, developed pasteurization, and developed the rabies vaccine.

Louis Pasteur

_____ developed a vaccine for smallpox using a closely related virus that causes cowpox.

Edward Jenner

_____ demonstrated the metabolic diversity of environmental microbes and developed a method for growing difficult to culture microbes in the laboratory.

Sergei Winogradsky