Some stalwarts in field of Microbiology. For UG and PG students. MBBS and MD

1. Some stalwarts
in Microbiology
Dr. Abhijeet Mane
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
BVDUMC, Pune

2. Robert Heinrich Herman Koch
(1843-1910)
• German Bacteriologist
• Introduced staining
techniques
• Introduced methods of
obtaining bacteria in pure
culture using solid media
• Discovered bacillus of
tuberculosis, Bacillus and
the cholera vibrio
• Gave the Koch’s postulates
• Received Nobel prize in
Medicine in 1905

3. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
(1632-1723)
• draper in Delft, Holland
• In 1683, made accurate
description of various
types of bacteria
• He called them “little
animacules”

4. Daniel Elmer Salmon
(1850-1914)
• A veterinary surgeon
• Genus Salmonella named
after him by his assistant
Theobald Smith in 1885

5. Theodor Albrecht Edwin
Klebs (1834-1913)
• German – Swiss
pathologist
• First to identify
Corynebacterium
diphtheriae
• Genus Klebsiella named
in honor of his extensive
work on the same

6. Theodor Escherich (1857-
1911)
German-Austrian Pediatrician
Discovered bacterium Escherichia coli
Escherich’s monograph on relationship of intestinal
bacteria to the physiology of digestion in the infant which
became his habilitation treatise

7. Filippo Pacini (1812-1883)
-Italian Anatomist
-First observed Vibrio cholerae
This microscope slide prepared by Pacini in 1854
was clearly identified as containing the Cholera
bacillus

8. Sir Frank Macfarlane
Burnet (1899-1985)
• Australian virologist &
immunologist
• Identified causative agent
of Q fever
• Gave Burnet’s clonal
selection theory
• Shared Nobel prize with
Sir Peter Medawar (1960)
for discovering acquired
immunological tolerance

9. Kiyoshi Shiga (1871-1957)
• Japanese researcher
• Discovered Shigella
dysentriae, bacillus
causing dysentery

10. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
• French Chemist
• Established that
fermentation was a result
of bacterial activity
• Proved that all forms of
life, even microbes, arose
only from their like & not
de novo
• introduced techniques of
sterilization, etc.

11. Barry Marshal (1951-) & Robin Warren (1937-)
shared Nobel prize in Medicine (2005) for discovery of Helicobacter Pylori
Australian Physician Australian Pathologist

12. Kary Mullis (1944 - )
• American Biochemist
• Shared Nobel prize in
Chemistry (1993) for
invention of Polymerase
Chain Reaction (PCR)

13. Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
• British Medical Doctor
• Born in India
• Received Nobel prize in
1902 in Medicine for
discovery of malarial
parasites in GI tract of
mosquito thus proving
malaria is transmitted by
mosquito

14. Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
(1855-1916)
• German Physician
• Discovered causative
agent of Gonorrhea

15. Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen
(1841-1912)
• Norwegian Physician
• Identified the bacterium
Mycobacterium leprae as
causative agent of
Leprosy

16. Alexander Ogston (1844-
1929)
• Scottish Surgeon
• Discovered bacterium
Staphylococcus

17. Rebecca Craighill Lancefield
(1895-1981)
• Prominent American
Microbiologist
• Famous for her
classification of beta
hemolytic streptococci,
called Lancefield
Grouping.

18. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
(1818-1865)
• Hungarian Physician
• Known as an early
pioneer of antiseptic
procedures
• Proposed the practice of
washing hands with
chlorinated lime solutions
in obstetrical clinics in
1847 to reduce incidence
of puerperal fever