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Jan 9, 2006 · The discovery of sexuality and development in microorganisms and Darwin's theory of evolution contributed to the founding of microbiology as a science. Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898), a pioneer in the developmental biology of lower plants, considerably promoted the taxonomy and physiology of bacteria, discovered the heat-resistant endospores of ...
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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.
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algae. bacteria. endospore. fungus. taxonomy. 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. Cohn was born in the ghetto of ...
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Cohn was a prolific writer, leaving behind over 150 papers, essays, and books. [1] In the 1850s he studied the growth and division of plant cells. In 1855 he produced papers on the sexuality of Sphaeroplea annulina and later Volvox globator. In the 1860s he studied plant physiology in several different aspects.
Cohn’s work also helped establish the recognition of bacteria as a separate group of living organisms different from plants or animals. Ferdinand was born on January 24, 1828 in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Lower Silesia, now in Poland. His father, Issak Cohn, was poor and lived in Breslau’s Jewish ghetto when Ferdinand was born.
Aug 1, 2000 · The discovery of sexuality and development in microorganisms and Darwin's theory of evolution contributed to the founding of microbiology as a science. Ferdinand Cohn (1828-1898), a pioneer in the ...
Nov 1, 2005 · Some of them became famous scientists in their own right, such as Georg Gaffky (1850–1918), a codiscoverer of the cholera bacillus 19, and Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), discoverer of the ...
