Scientists and their microbiology findings (IN ORDER)

Francesco Stelluti

Observed bees and weevils

Francesco Redi

Discredited spontaneous generation

Maggots on decaying meat came from fly eggs

Robert Hooke

Created the compound microscope

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Used a single lens microscope to observe bacteria (animalcules)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Smallpox inoculation

Carl Linnaeus

Taxonomic Nomenclature

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Attempted to disprove spontaneous generation, Needham argued about lack of “vegetative force”

Edward Jenner

Vaccination with cowpox

Father of vaccination

Ignaz Semmelweis

Studied child bed fever deaths; led to the idea of antiseptic

Florence Nightingale

Nursing during the Crimean War

Mother of nurse

Louis Pasteur

Disproved spontaneous generation with the Swan neck experiment

Joseph Lister

Development of antiseptic system

Robert Kock

Kock’s postulates

Julius Petris

Created Petri dish

Alexander Fleming

Discovered Penicillin

Watson and Crick

DNA double helix