Microbiology

Robert Hooke - Responsible for cell theory.

Anton van Leeuwekheok - Father of Microbiology.

Franceso Redi - Opposed the spontaneous generation theory.

John Needham - Responsible for spontaneous generation theory.

Lazzaro Spallanzani - Open flask cloudy, closed flask clear.

Anton Laurent Lavoisier - Oxygen is responsible for life and combustion.

Rudolf Virchow - Theory of biogenesis

Louis Pasteur - Responsible for pasteur flask (Microbes come from air but air does not create microbes)

Louis Pasteur - Discovered microorganisms are responsible for fermentation and disease.

Louis Pasteur - Developed a vaccine for anthrax, rabies, cholera.

Joseph Lister - Father of antiseptic surgery (Phenol/Carbolic Acid)

Robert Koch - Father of microbiological techniques, Koch Postulate, Germ Theory

Robert Koch - Identified causes of disease of M. tuberculosis (Koch’s bacilli)

Robert Koch - Identified causes of disease of B. anthracis (biggest)

Robert Koch - Identified causes of disease of V. cholerae (comma shaped halophile)

Richard Petri - Invented the petri dish

Ignaz Semmelweiz - Surgical handwashing to prevent Puerperal Childbirth Fever

Modern Chemotherapy

Paul Ehrlich - Father of Chemotherapy (Salvarsan - treatment for syphilis)

Emil von Behring - Discovered diphtheria toxins.

Domagk - Prontosil

Alexander Fleming - Penicillin notatum

Florey and Chain - Penicillin

Salman Waksman - Streptomycin

Edward Jenner - Smallpox vaccine

5 Kingdoms of Classification System (Whittaker)