Historical Figures Flashcards
This person was the first person to use the microscope and is considered the father of microbiology.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
This person created Taxonomy.
Carolus Linnaeus
This person is anti abiogenesis, He did the same thing as John Tuberville Needham, Except he boiled for a lot longer and used a seal for it to cool down. Noticed no bacteria growth.
Lorenzo Spallanzani
This person was pro abiogenies. He took broth and boiled it and placed it outside with a towel to cover and it grew bacteria.
John Tuberville Needham
This person disproved abiogenesis and spontaneous generation. He had 3 hypothesis:
1)Air
2)Bacteria- Boiled grape juice and added bacteria, results acidic fermentation.
3)Boiled grape juice and added yeast, result alcohol
Louis Pasteur
This person discovered anthrax and he created a rule.
1)Organism has to be found in every person who has the disease and can’t be found in healthy people.
2)Isolate the organism and grow it.
3) Reintroduced grown microbes to the healthy host.
4)Isolate + grow from new host and must reidentified as the same organisms.
-Can you name the rule!
Robert Koch and the rule Koch’s postulates
He came up with antisepsis, cleaning wounds.
Joseph Lister
This person focused on prevention. He asked for the doctors to wash their hands in between patients.
Ignaz Semelwis
First epidemiologist. He found the source of an outbreak of Cholera
John Snow
He gave a kid cowpox so he couldnt get small pox. This person was playing with the theory of vaccines
Edward Jenner
This person crushed up scabs of smallpox and blew it into peoples face so they would get mild reactions.
Onesimus
He discovered the third domain called Archaea.
Carl Woese
This person was a crystallographer. This person took the first picture of DNA.
Rosaline Franklin
This persons discovered the double helix and created a 3D model.
Watson and Crick
This person created a rule for DNA. Can you also name the rule?
(Hint- A:T and C:G)
Erwin Chargaff and its Chargaff’s rule.
