Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, and of the roles they play in health, disease, and the environment.
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Founded YearAntonie van Leeuwenhoek's 1676 observation of bacteria and other microorganisms through his own hand-ground microscope lenses is the field's founding moment, though the modern discipline of experimental microbiology is usually dated to Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch's germ-theory work nearly two centuries later. Central QuestionWhat roles do the vast majority of microbial species that have never been cultured in a laboratory play in the environments and organisms they inhabit, given how little of microbial diversity classical culturing methods can reach? 2 ScopeMicrobiology is the study of microscopic organisms, bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists and viruses, examining their structure, function, classification and effects on other living things. 2 SignificanceAntonie van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch cloth merchant who ground his own lenses, was the first person to observe and describe single-celled organisms through a microscope in the 1670s, earning him recognition as the father of microbiology roughly two centuries before germ theory was established. 2 Connections
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1. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Master of Fleas and Father of Microbiology (PMC)
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The Dutch scientist and entrepreneur Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first to discover and describe microorganisms (protists, bacteria), living beings he characterized as "animalcules" (little animals). Using single-lensed microscopes created for his own, private research, he was able to see and draw microbes for the first time in the history of biomedical sciences.
2. Wikipedia: Microbiology
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Microbiology is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular, or acellular. Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, protistology, mycology, immunology, and parasitology.
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is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or acellular (lacking cells)
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Wikipedia)
Zinaida Yermolyeva (Wikipedia)
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was a Soviet microbiologist of Don Cossack origin most notable for producing penicillin for the Soviet military during World War II.
Kitasato Shibasaburo (Wikipedia)
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was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
Barry Marshall (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Medicine Microbiology
Selman Waksman (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Biochemistry and microbiology
Wikipedia: Rotem Sorek
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Infobox fields: Microbiology; Immunology; Genomics
Senjuti Saha (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Molecular genetics, microbiology, epidemiology
Francisc Rainer (Wikipedia)
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Infobox fields: Pathology; Morphology; Microbiology; Kinesiology; Biological anthropology
Robert Koch (Wikipedia)
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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( ; ; 11 December 1843-27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist.
Carlos Chagas (Wikipedia)
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Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas (; 9 July 1879-8 November 1934), was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher.
Carl Woese (Wikipedia)
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Carl Richard Woese ( ; July 15, 1928, December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist.
Werner Arber (Wikipedia)
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Werner Arber (born 3 June 1929 in Gränichen, Aargau) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist.
Daniel Nathans (Wikipedia)
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Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928, November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist.
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (Wikipedia)
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Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty (4 April 1938-10 July 2020) was an Indian American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE, the patent for which led
André Michel Lwoff (Wikipedia)
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was a French microbiologist
Meenakshi Banerjee (Wikipedia)
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Meenakshi Banerjee is an Indian cyanobacteriologist and the head of the Center for Applied Algal Research at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Antiseptic (Wikipedia)
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An antiseptic (Greek: ἀντί, romanized: anti, lit. 'against' and σηπτικός, sēptikos, 'putrefactive') is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue to reduce the possibility of sepsis, infection, or putrefaction.
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