HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY Mrs. Kanchan Ch. Bansi Lal Govt. Polytechnic, Bhiwani
HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY (1220-1292) Produced the disease by invisible living organism. Scientist- Roger Bacon (1665) Description of cells in a piece of pork. Scientist- Robert Hooke (1667) Observe little animals. Scientist- Antony Leeuwenhock (1713-1781) Concluded that bacteria originated from the meat. Scientist-John Needham (1796) First scientific small pox vaccination. Scientist- Edward Jenner (1820-1893) Concluded that dust contains the germs. Scientist- John Tyndall (1862) Spotted germ theory of disease. Scientist- Louis Pasteur
(1867) Developed antiseptic surgery. Scientist- Joseph Lister (1881) Growth of bacteria on solid media. Scientist- Robert Koch (1882) Developed acid fast stain. Scientist- Paul Ehrlich (1884) Developed green stain. Scientist- Christian Gram (1885) First rabies respiration. Scientist- Louis Pasteur (1887) Invented petri dish. Scientist- R.J.Petri (1892) Discovered virus. Scientist- D.I.Ivanovski (1899) Recognised viral dependence on cell for production. Scientist- Martinus Beijerinek
(1900) Proved mosquito carry the yellow fever agent. Scientist- Walter Reed (1928) Discovered Penicillin. Scientist- Alexander Flaming (1977) Developed a method to sequence DNA. Scientist- W. Gilbert and F. Sanger (1983) PCR invented. Scientist- Kary Mullis (1995) First microbial genomic sequence published (H. influenzal ). Scientist- TIGR