Discoveries in microbiology links

Edward Jenner’s discovery and development of the first vaccine

Julius Petri and Robert Koch’s creating of the petri dish and the gelatin agar

Hans and Zacharias Janssen’s invention of the compound light microscope

Louis Pasteur’s discovery of the presence of microorganisms

The use of microorganisms for applied biotechnology in the industrial and medical fields

Max Knoll’s and Ernst Ruska’s invention of the electron microscope (‘supermicroscope’)

Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of the antibiotic Penicillin

Robert Koch’s conclusion (‘Koch’s Postulates’) that specific bacteria cause specific diseases

Be sure to click all 4 tabs at top for the 4 postulates.

The National Cancer Institute’s discovery of the HIV retrovirus which causes AIDS

Creation of the Germ Theory