Scientists with Their Inventions

Question 1

The First Microbiologist

Answer 1

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723):

Question 2

The First to Observe the Existence of Microorganisms, the first word cell was used

Answer 2

Robert Hooke (1635–1703):

Question 3

Fighting Against the Odds

Answer 3

Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799):

Question 4

The First and Greatest Success of Immunization

Answer 4

Edward Jenner (1749–1823):

Question 5

Savior of Mothers

Answer 5

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865):

Question 6

The Master of Microbiology

Answer 6

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895):

Question 7

Pioneer of Bacteriology

Answer 7

Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898):

Question 8

Pioneer of Antisepsis

Answer 8

Joseph Lister (1827–1912):

Question 9

Pioneer of Mycology

Answer 9

Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888):

Question 10

___ traced the cholera outbreak to a common water supply in London.

Answer 10

John Snow

Question 11

Pioneer of Leprosy Studies

Answer 11

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841–1912):

Question 12

The Great Medical Microbiologist

Answer 12

Robert Koch (1843–1910):

Question 13

Phagocytosis and Immunology, Father of Natural Immunity

Answer 13

Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916):

Question 14

Pioneer of General Microbiology

Answer 14

Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931):

Question 15

perfected the first device known as a microscope.

Answer 15

1609 Galileo Galilei

Question 16

___ and ___ are noted as the first men to develop the concept of the compound microscope.

Answer 16

Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey

Question 17

invented a simple pair of nesting glass dishes, ideal for keeping specimens of growing bacteria sterile—the ‘Petri dish.’

Answer 17

1887, Julius Petri

Question 18

used the small opening underneath his staircase as an incubator.

Answer 18

Louis Pasteur

Question 19

are used for the growth and storage of bacterial cultures

Answer 19

Microbiological incubators

Question 20

was a German chemist and teacher. He invented the Bunsen burner for his research in isolating chemical substances

Answer 20

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (March 31, 1811-August 16, 1899)

Question 21

is credited with the invention of the beaker, but in reality, the beaker was invented by Beaker in 1846

Answer 21

Richard Conderbnerellos

Question 22

These inverted conical flasks were invented in 1861 by a German chemist and have been used ubiquitously in laboratories throughout the world.

Answer 22

Erlenmeyer Flasks

Question 23

He was the first chemist to synthesize tyrosine, guanidine, creatine, and creatinine.

Answer 23

Emil Richard August Carl Erlenmeyer (1825–1909)

Question 24

The graduated cylinder was invented by ___ in the year of 1909, in order to help with measuring the volume of a liquid.

Answer 24

Albert Einstein

Question 25

The pipette was invented by ___ in the year 1979, in order to extract and make measuring liquid easier.

Answer 25

Warren Gilson

Question 26

___ of Newark, New Jersey invented the Magnetic Stirrer on 6 June 1944.

Answer 26

Arthur Rosinger

Question 27

In 1864, ___ invented the first centrifuge-type machine, which was used in the dairy industry to separate milk and cream on a large scale.

Answer 27

Antonin Prandtl

Question 28

a Swiss physician and biologist, was the first to apply centrifugation in the lab.

Answer 28

Friedrich Miescher,

Question 29

A ___ is a laboratory device that employs a rotating magnetic field to cause a stir bar (or flea) immersed in a liquid to spin very quickly, thus stirring it.

Answer 29

magnetic stirrer or magnetic mixer

Question 30

was a Swedish professor of astronomy who devised the Celsius thermometer

Answer 30

Anders Celsius (1701-1744)

Question 31

was an American physiologist who invented the microelectrode in the 1930’s.

Answer 31

Ida Henrietta Hyde (1857-1945)

Question 32

A ___ is a small device that electrically (or chemically) stimulates a living cell and records the electrical activity within that cell.

Answer 32

microelectrode

Question 33

developed the first burette on 1791. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac invented a more complete burette later.

Answer 33

Francois Antoine Henri Descroizilles

Question 34

The autoclave was invented by ___ in 1884

Answer 34

Charles Chamberland

Question 35

was the first person to extract oxygen gas from the air, making it a commercially viable product and thus launching the industrial gas industry. He also developed modern refrigeration.

Answer 35

Carl von Linde

Question 36

was a German physicist who described this new form of radiation that allowed him to photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields

Answer 36

Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen

Question 37

was a research physician who formulated a vaccine against the devastating disease of polio.

Answer 37

Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

Question 38

, also called infantile paralysis, had crippled thousands of children during an epidemic that hit the world during the 1940s and 1950s.

Answer 38

Poliomyelitis