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Experimented on 8 year old James Phillips
Inserted pus from a cowpox pustule into Phillips's arm. Then, also did it to his child.
Lead to the smallpox vaccine. |
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| Stanley Miller & Harold Urey |
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| Simulated the "spark" that might have started forming organic molecules from the primordial soup |
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| Disproved spontaneous generation |
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Bacillusanthracis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis were the causes of anthrax and TB (respectively).
Formed Koch's Postulates, which remain the gold standard for determining which microbes caused which diseases (despite some imperfections). |
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"Father of Antieptic Surgery"
Handwashing, sterilizing instruments, spraying and using phenol, reduced infection rates, performed first antiseptic surgery |
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| Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medcine for the discovery of penicillin |
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| Uses microscope to see microorganisms |
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| Practices infection control |
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| Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin |
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| Develop poliovirus vaccines |
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| Proposes endosymbiotic theory |
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| Proposes three-domain classification of living organisms |
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| Publishes first complete bacterial genome sequence |
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