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Chapter 1 Scientists
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
09/13/2013

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Edward Jenner
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Experimented on 8 year old James Phillips

Inserted pus from a cowpox pustule into Phillips's arm. Then, also did it to his child.

Lead to the smallpox vaccine.
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Stanley Miller & Harold Urey
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Simulated the "spark" that might have started forming organic molecules from the primordial soup
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Louis Pasteur
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Disproved spontaneous generation
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Robert Koch
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Bacillusanthracis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis were the causes of anthrax and TB (respectively).
Formed Koch's Postulates, which remain the gold standard for determining which microbes caused which diseases (despite some imperfections).
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Sir Joseph Lister
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"Father of Antieptic Surgery"
Handwashing, sterilizing instruments, spraying and using phenol, reduced infection rates, performed first antiseptic surgery
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Sir Alexander Flemming
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Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medcine for the discovery of penicillin
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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Uses microscope to see microorganisms
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Joseph Lister
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Practices infection control
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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin
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Develop poliovirus vaccines
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Lynn Margulis
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Proposes endosymbiotic theory
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Kary Mullis
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Invents PCR
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Carl Woese
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Proposes three-domain classification of living organisms
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Craig Venter
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Publishes first complete bacterial genome sequence
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