Scientist In Virology And Microbial Genetics

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Louis Pasteur

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Attenuated the rabies virus and developed the Semple vaccine for rabies

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Charles Chamberland

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Coined the term filter able virus

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Dimitri ivanosky

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Father of virology; discovered the tobacco mosaic virus

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Wendell Stanley

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Was the first to crystallize a virus

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Max Theiler

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Attenuated the yellow fever virus by serial passage through chick embryos

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Stanley Prusiner

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First isolated prions in 1982, noticed the prions were probably mainly composed of proteins

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Jacob and Monod

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Proposed the lac operon model while working with E.coli and lactose metabolism

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Joshua and Elian lederberg

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Developed the replica playing technique which detects mutants in a bacterial population

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Frederick Griffith

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First noted transformation while working with two stains of streptococcus pneumonia that were injected into a lab mouse.

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Avery, McCarthy, Macleod

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Determined DNA was the cause of transformation. Marked the beginning of molecular genetics

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Barbara McClintok

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First noted transposons in corn

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Edward Jenner

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Developed the smallpox vaccine. Noticed people who were infected first with cow pox would not develop small pox