MICRB265 Lecture Notes - Carl Woese, Selman Waksman, Edward Jenner
10 Sep 2013
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Agar developed by fannie (and walther) hesse. Edward jenner (1798) small pox vaccine found out that milk maids infected by cow pox early on did not contract small pox hmmm *light bulb moment* Ferdinand cohn (1876) founded bacteriology : described spore formation in bacillus. Sergei winogradsky (1889) came up with the concept of chemilithotrophy and autotrophy. Martinus bejerink (1901) enriched bacteria cultivating method: came up with the concept of virus". Selman waksman and albert schatz (1944) discovered streptomycin in soil bacteria: an antibiotic that can be used to treat tuberculosis. Thomas brock (1967) discovered bacteria in hot springs. Carl woese and george fox discovered the archaea: the archaea are just as different from bacteria as they are from the other kingdoms. Craig venter and hamilton smith (1995) sequenced the first full bacterial genome. Microbes exist and operate in diverse and complex communities: looking at these communities through a light microscope does not capture the true complexity though.
