1677
Observed "little animals" (Antony Leeuwenhoek)
1796
First scientific Small pox vaccination (Edward Jenner)
1850
Advocated washing hands to stop the spread of disease (Ignaz Semmelweis)
1861
Disproved spontaneous generation (Louis Pasteur)
1862
Supported Germ Theory of Disease (Louis Pasteur)
1867
Practiced antiseptic surgery (Joseph Lister)
1876
First proof of Germ Theory of Disease with B. anthracis discovery (Robert Koch)
1881
Growth of Bacteria on solid media (Robert Koch)
1882
Outlined Kochs postulates (Robert Koch)
1882
Developed acid-fast Stain (Paul Ehrlich)
1884
Developed Gram Stain (Christian Gram)
1885
First Rabies vaccination (Louis Pasteur)
1887
Invented Petri Dish (R.J. Petri)
1892
Discovered viruses (Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovski)
1899
Recognized viral dependence on cells for reproduction (Martinus Beijerinck)
1900
Proved mosquitoes carried the yellow fever agent (Walter Reed)
1910
Discovered cure for syphilis (Paul Ehrlich)
1928
Discovered Penicillin (Alexander Fleming)
1977
Developed a method to sequence DNA (W. Gilbert & F. Sanger)
1983
Polymerase Chain Reaction invented (Kary Mullis)
1995
First microbial genomic sequence published (H. influenzae) (TIGR)
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