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Born February 6, 1834 • Russia
Died October 23, 1913 (aged 79) • Bern • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study Corynebacterium diphtheriae • germ theory
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist
Friedrich August Johannes Löffler
German bacteriologist
Agostino Bassi
Italian bacteriologist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
Hans Buchner
German bacteriologist
August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist
David Bruce
British physician
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Kitasato Shibasaburo, c. 1928.
Kitasato Shibasaburo
Japanese physician and bacteriologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
Fracastoro, engraving
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician
Yersin, Alexandre
Alexandre Yersin
French bacteriologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist