KERALA PSC / CDPO / HOME SCIENCE / MICROBIOLOGY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / HOME SCIENCE / MICROBIOLOGY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

KERALA PSC / CDPO / HOME SCIENCE / MICROBIOLOGY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

GOLDEN AGE OF MICROBIOLOGY

 

·       Robert Koch: Identified a bacterium as cause of anthrax

·       Joseph Lister (1865): Introduced the “antiseptic technique”

·       Martinus Beijerinck (1884-85): Discovered “viruses” (toxins, poisons)

·       Paul Ehrlich (1910): Introduced concept of chemotherapy

·       Alexander Fleming(1928): Discovered the first antibiotic-penicillin

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / HOME SCIENCE / MICROBIOLOGY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES