History of Microbiology

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History of Microbiology

• 1664 Robert Hooke - microscope
• 1684 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - microorganisms
• 1798 Edward Jenner - smallpox vaccination
• 1864 Louis Pasteur - spontaneous generation
• 1884 Robert Koch - Kochs postulates
• 1889 Martinus Beijerink - concept of virus
• 1929 Alexander Fleming - discovery of penicillin
• 1977 Carl Woese - discovery of Archaea
• 1981 First reports of AIDS
• 1983 Luc Montagnier - discovery of HIV
• 1995 Craig Venter - complete genome sequence