Micro+Biologists

Joseph Lister (1827-1912) Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, doubted this explanation. For many years he had explored the inflammation of wounds, at the Glasgow infirmary. These observations had led him to considered that infection was not due to bad air alone, and that 'wound sepsis' was a form of decomposition. And he b orn on the 5 April 1827 in Upton, Essex, Joseph Lister was the son of the British physicist Joseph Jackson Lister.

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Robert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of all time.He fell out with Newton, and certainly had a difficult temperament.He deserves more from History than he received in his lifetime.The inventor of, amongst other things, the iris diaphragm in cameras, the universal joint used in motor vehicles, the balance wheel in a watch, the originator of the word 'cell' in biology, he was Surveyor of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666, architect, experimenter, worked in astronomy. **
 * Robert Hooke (18 July 1635 - 3 March 1703)

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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for jis remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies. His experiments supported the germ theory of disesse. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method th stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main foundres of microbiology, together with Ferdinad Cohn and Robert Koch. Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals. His body lies beneath the Institute Pasteur in Paris in a spectacular vault covered in depictions of his accomplishment in Byzantie mosaics.

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