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Robert Hooke
- 1st to Report seeing Microorganisms
- Published a book called Micrographia
- Saw Plants and Fungi but Not Bacteria
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Considered 1st Microbiologest
- Lens gribder
- Able to see Larg Protoza and Bacteria Cells
- Recorded Findings and sent to London
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Edward Jenner
Made the 1st Scientific Small Pox Vaccination
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Ignaz Semmelweis
- Pioneered the Aseptic Policy
- Ordered doctors to wash hands with Chlorinated water
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Francesco Redi
- 1st to Try to disprove Spontaneous Generation
- He showed that no maggots appeared in meat when flies could not lay their eggs directly onto meat
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Louis Pasteur
- Disprovd Spontaneous Generation by using his Swan Neck Flasks, which were Sterile
- He proved Biogenesis (all living things come from pre-existing life)
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Robert Koch
Proved that Microoragnisms Cause Disease called the Germ Theory of Disease
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Robert Koch Stipulated 4 Postulates
- First Postulate, a Microbe has to be found in Every Case of the Disease
- Second Postulate, the microbe must be Isolated and Grown in Pure Culture
- Third Postulate, when the cultured microbe in Inoculated into another animal it must cause the same Disease
- Fourth Postulate, the same Microorganism must be re-isolated from the inoculted animal
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John Snowbortory
- Researched Cholera
- Developed basic laboratory techniques, Petri plates, Solid medium to grow Microorganisms, the Gram Stain and other Staining procedures
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Paul Ehrlich
- Developed a Cure for Syphilis
- Developed selective Killing drugs
- Considered the father of Chemotherapy
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