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2. Developed Koch’s postulates – important technique for determining the actual microbial cause agent of a disease
5. Scottish physician and bacteriologist - 1928
7. The science that studies very small living things
9. English surgeon that applied ideas of the germ theory to surgery, remembered the work of Semmelweis in Hungary in the 1840’s,
10. started the process of the development of the Cell theory of life
12. credited with first vaccine – in epidemics of smallpox during the late 1700’s he observed that milk maids didn’t get the disease, cattle had a similar
13. in meat , He used covered jars to show that maggots came from flies –strong evidence against spontaneous generation
14. comes from Latin word “vacca” meaning cow

1. Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek –1673 - probably the first person to observe living cells with a simple microscope, amateur scientist, ground his own lenses and described what we know today as bacteria
3. opposed the prevailing theory of Spontaneous Generation,
4. tool to magnify the specimen
6. French sceintist that dealt the death blow to the spontaneous generation theory.
8. German doctor, wanted to find a “magic bullet” an agent that would kill
11. mold growing on a bacteria culture, there was a ring of clearing around the mold where the bacteria didn’t grow, the mold was later found to be a Penicillium species