| A | B |
|---|
| Linneaus | First organized classification scheme |
| Whittaker | 5 kingdom classification scheme |
| Haeckel | 3 kingdom classification scheme |
| Woese | 3 domains as the broadest classification groups |
| Hooke | First observed and named cells |
| van Leeuwenhoek | Father of Microbiology |
| Jansen and Galileo | Earliest microscopes |
| Redi | Disproved spontaneous generation for macroscopic organisms |
| Pasteur | Disproved spontaneous generation of microbes |
| Virchow | Theory of biogenesis--life from life |
| Pasteur | Proved fermentation resulted from action of microbes |
| Pasteur | Proved that a silkworm disease was caused by a protozoan--first proof of germ theory of disease |
| Koch | Proof of germ theory of disease for an animal disease--anthrax |
| Koch | Developed many lab methods and culture techniques for work with microbes |
| Semmelweis and Holmes | Advocated simple handwashing between patients to prevent spread of disease |
| Lister | Pioneer in sterile technique for surgery |
| Jenner | Smallpox vaccinations using the cowpox virus |
| Pasteur | Accidentally discovered that inactivated microbes can still stimulate immunity (fowl cholera vaccine) |
| Ehrlich | Salvarsan--beginning of modern chemotherapy |
| Metchnikoff | Phagocytosis |
| Watson & Crick | Structure of DNA |
| Fleming | Penicillin--first true antibiotic |
