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Micro History
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 2
02/11/2011

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Jenner
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Recognized the relationship between Cowpox and immunity to Smallpox.
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Hesse
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Is credited with suggesting the use of Agar as a solidifying agent of microbial media.
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Ehrlich
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Discovered the first cure for syphilis.
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Leeuwenhoek
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First one to see and draw bacteria and a whole host of other microbes.
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Ehrlich
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His work lead to the concept of a "Magic Bullet" to fight disease.
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Koch
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Discovered the bacterial agent that causes anthrax.
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Semmelweiss
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First person to relate the spread of puerperal sepsis to unsanitary conditions in a hospital.
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Redi
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Performed a crucial experiment proving that larger life forms did not arise spontaneously.
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Koch
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Person who was responsible for developing most of the basic microbiology laboratory techniques used today to study microbes.
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Pasteur
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Person who is considered responsible for initiating Modern Immunology.
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Needham
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Supported spontaneous generation with his findings because his corks were not sealed tightly enough.
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Pasteur
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His experiment definitively disproved spontaneous generation.
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Lister
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The founder of antisceptic surgery.
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