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1859 BCE
Aristotle (spontaneous generation)
demonstrated in 1668 that maggots did not, contrary to Aristotle, arise spontaneously, but from eggs laid by adult flies. ... He said, using "worm" to mean maggot: "I began to believe that all worms found in meat derived from flies and not from putrefaction. -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
best known for his work on the development and improvement of the microscope and also for his subsequent contribution towards the study of microbiology. -
Carolus Linnaeus
famous for his work in Taxonomy, the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms (plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, etc.). -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner was an English country doctor who introduced the vaccine for smallpox. -
John Snow
was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. -
Louis Pasteur
He made important discoveries about the role of microbes (germs) in disease and in food spoiling. ... Among his discoveries are the pasteurization process and ways of preventing silkworm diseases, anthrax, chicken cholera, and rabies. -
Hans Ernst August Buchner
was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich. -
Robert Koch
used experiments to prove that the bacterium Bacillus anthracis was the cause of anthrax - the bacterium could be observed in the tissue of anthrax victims. He extracted this bacterium from a sheep which had died of anthrax, grew it and injected a mouse with it. -
Florence Nightingale (nursing)
Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing figure in nursing who greatly affected 19th- and 20th-century policies around proper care. She was known for her night rounds to aid the wounded, establishing her image as the 'Lady with the Lamp. -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister is the surgeon who introduced new principles of cleanliness which transformed surgical practice in the late 1800s.
