Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of Science
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Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of Science

  1. 600 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of Science

About this book

Pasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and academia. In this book, the life and times of leading pioneers in microbiology are discussed in vivid detail, focusing on the background of each discovery and the process in which they were developed — sometimes by accident or sheer providence.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. About the Authors
  5. Chapter 1 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723): The First Microbiologist
  6. Chapter 2 Robert Hooke (1635–1703): The First to Observe the Existence of Microorganisms
  7. Chapter 3 Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799): Fighting Against the Odds
  8. Chapter 4 Edward Jenner (1749–1823): The First and Greatest Success of Immunization
  9. Chapter 5 Agostino Maria Bassi (1773–1856): Pioneer of Studying Contagious Disease
  10. Chapter 6 Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865): Savior of Mothers
  11. Chapter 7 Louis Pasteur (1822–1895): The Master of Microbiology
  12. Chapter 8 Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898): Pioneer of Bacteriology
  13. Chapter 9 Joseph Lister (1827–1912): Pioneer of Antisepsis
  14. Chapter 10 Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831–1888): Pioneer of Mycology
  15. Chapter 11 Thomas Jonathan Burrill (1839–1916): Pioneer of Microbe and Plant Diseases
  16. Chapter 12 Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841–1912): Pioneer of Leprosy Studies
  17. Chapter 13 Robert Koch (1843–1910): The Great Medical Microbiologist
  18. Chapter 14 Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916): Phagocytosis and Immunology
  19. Chapter 15 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922): Discoverer of the Malaria Parasite
  20. Chapter 16 Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931): Pioneer of General Microbiology
  21. Chapter 17 Walter Reed (1851–1902): Yellow Fever Fighter
  22. Chapter 18 Emile Roux (1853–1933): Diseases Fighter
  23. Chapter 19 Emil von Behring (1854–1917): Pioneer of Serology
  24. Chapter 20 Erwin F. Smith (1854–1927): Father of Plant Pathology
  25. Chapter 21 David Bruce (1855–1931): Pioneer of Veterinary Microbiology
  26. Chapter 22 Sergei N. Winogradsky (1856–1953): Founder of Soil and General Microbiology
  27. Chapter 23 Kitasato Shibasaburo (1853–1931): First to Isolate Clostridium tetani and a Pioneer of Serology
  28. Chapter 24 Theobald Smith (1859–1934): The Captain of American Microbe Hunters
  29. Chapter 25 Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943): Pioneer of Plague Fighter
  30. Chapter 26 Albert Leon Charles Calmette (1863–1933): Antituberculousis and BCG Vaccination
  31. Chapter 27 Charles J. H. Nicolle (1866–1936): Pioneer of Typhus Studies
  32. Chapter 28 Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871–1910): Pioneer of Rickettsial Diseases Studies
  33. Chapter 29 Chaim A. Weizmann (1874–1952): Pioneer of Industrial Microbiology and First President of Israel
  34. Chapter 30 Oswald Theodore Avery (1877–1955): Microbiological Genetic Transmission and DNA
  35. Chapter 31 Frederick Griffith (1879–1941): Discovery of Transformation
  36. Chapter 32 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955): The Discovery of Penicillin
  37. Chapter 33 Albert Jan Kluyver (1888–1956): Unity of Biochemistry and Pioneer of General Microbiology
  38. Chapter 34 Gerhardt J. Domagk (1895–1964): Pioneer of Sulfur Drug Chemotherapy
  39. Chapter 35 Paul Henry de Kruif (1890–1971): Gas Gangrene Research and Historian of Microbiology
  40. Chapter 36 William C. Frazier (1894–1991): Pioneer of Dairy and Food Microbiologist
  41. Chapter 37 Ira Lawrence Baldwin (1895–1999): Pioneer of Agricultural Microbiology and Education
  42. Chapter 38 Cornelis B. van Niel (1897–1985): Educator and Pioneer of Bacterial Photosynthesis and General Microbiology
  43. Chapter 39 Max Theiler (1899–1972): Yellow Fever Vaccine Developer
  44. Chapter 40 René Jules Dubos (1901–1982): Pioneer of Bacterial Antibiotics and Environmental Microbiology
  45. Chapter 41 Barbara McClintock (1902–1992): Pioneer of Microcellular Directed Genetics
  46. Chapter 42 George W. Beadle (1903–1989): Pioneer of Biochemical Genetics
  47. Chapter 43 Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909–1975): Pioneer of Molecular Genetics
  48. Chapter 44 Horace A. Barker (1907–2000): Pioneer of Anaerobic Metabolism
  49. Chapter 45 Deam Hunter Ferris (1912–1993): Pioneer of Epizoonotic Studies
  50. Chapter 46 Herman J. Phaff (1913–2001): Pioneer of Yeast Biology
  51. Chapter 47 Harold Boyd Woodruff (1917–2017): Antibiotics Hunter and Distinguished Soil Microbiologist
  52. Chapter 48 Ralph S. Wolfe (1921 to Present): Pioneer of Biochemistry of Methanogenesis
  53. Chapter 49 Esther Miriam (Zimmer) Lederberg (1922–2006): Transduction and Replica Plating
  54. Chapter 50 Marvin P. Bryant (1925–2000): Bacteria in Methanogenic Ecosystems
  55. Chapter 51 Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008): Pioneer of Microbial Genetics
  56. Chapter 52 Hubert A. Lechevalier (1926–2015): Antibiotics Hunter and Actinomycetologist
  57. Chapter 53 Thomas D. Brock (1926 to Present): A Successful Modern Microbes Hunter
  58. Chapter 54 Arnold L. Demain (1927 to Present): A Giant of Industrial Microbiology
  59. Chapter 55 Bruce N. Ames (1928 to Present): A Pioneer of Genetic Toxicology and Molecular Mutagenesis
  60. Chapter 56 Richard L. Crowell (1930 to Present): Cellular Receptors and Viral Infection
  61. Chapter 57 Peter Charles Doherty (1940 to Present): Pioneer of Immunology
  62. Name Index
  63. Subject Index