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Jul 1, 2000 · This short overview on the history of fermentation shows that the concepts of catalysis and species-specific metabolic capacities of microorganisms, experimentally proved by new analytical and microbiological methods, paved the way for modern research of this field.
- Gerhart Drews
- 2000
Ferdinand Cohn (born January 24, 1828, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia [now Wrocław, Poland]—died June 25, 1898, Breslau) was a German naturalist and botanist known for his studies of algae, bacteria, and fungi. He is considered one of the founders of bacteriology.
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Ferdinand Julius Cohn(1828-1898) is recognized as one of the founders of modern bacteriology. He contributed to the creation of this discipline in two important ways. First, he invented a new system for classifying bacteria, which provided microbiologists with a more standardized nomenclature with which to work. Secondly, his drive to understand th...
The discipline of bacteriology originated with the recognition that bacteria are organisms in their own right—that they are different from algae, fungi, and other single-celled microorganisms. This idea is central to Cohn's belief in the constancy of bacterial species and his creation of an extensive classification system for microorganisms, in whi...
The notion, promoted by Cohn and others, that bacterial species were constant, led to methods of growing pure cultures. Pasteur was using pure cultures to support his claims that different types of fermentations were caused by specific microorganisms. German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910) would later apply similar reasoning in developing the ger...
Bulloch, William. The History of Bacteriology. London: Oxford UniversityPress, 1960. Cohn, Ferdinand J. Bacteria: The Smallest of Living Organisms. Baltimore, MD: Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, 1939. Vandervliet, Glenn. Microbiology and the Spontaneous Generation Debate During the 1870s.Kansas: Coronado Press, 1971.
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German-Polish biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
Nov 1, 2005 · Although he was a medical bacteriologist at heart, Koch's demonstration that distinct pathogens cause specific disease helped give birth to immunology as a discipline, at least at a theoretical...
- Stefan H E Kaufmann, Florian Winau
- 2005
During the span of a long life of seventy years Ferdinand Cohn has devoted his best energies to the advancement of botany, and the list of his papers in the “Royal Society Catalogue of ...
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This essay reviews the life and career of German scientist Ferdinand Cohn (1828-1898). A botanist by training, Cohn was a major force in establishing bacteriology/microbiology as a scientific discipline.
