Discovery and History

The discovery and history of microbiologists are considered by Robert Hooke and his contemporary Antonie van Leeuwenhoek from 1660 but the theory of spontaneous generation did not allow for the existence of microorganisms to be placed in their true circumstance. Though, Pasteur’s swan-necked flask experiments in 1861 showed that food-spoilage organisms were airborne and microscopic. Cohn in 1875 founded the science of bacteriology and was followed through other late Victorian scientists, like as Beijerinck, Koch, and Winogradsky. Bacteria became the model system for biochemistry by the 20th and early 21st centuries culminating in the sequencing of the Haemophilus influenzae genome through colleagues and Venter in 1995.

                                                 Figure:Discovery and History of Microbiology