1882 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)

Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose.

Discovery of the tubercle bacillus announced March 24, 1882. This paper also contains a statement of “Koch’s postulates”. See also Nos. 2536 and 5167. Koch published a fuller account as "Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose…

GMN 2331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3057

1912 NICOLLE, Charles Jules Henri (1866 – 1936); ET AL

Le magot animal réactif du trachôme. Filtrabilité du virus. Pouvoir infectant des larmes.

Filtration of the trachoma agent, Chlamydia trachomatis. With L. Blaisot and A. Cuénod.

GMN 5961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6981

1915 WEINBERG, Michel (1868 – 1940); SÉGUIN, P

Notes bactériologiques sur les infections gazeuses.

Isolation of Cl. oedematiens.

GMN 2520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3293

1916 WEINBERG, Michel (1868 – 1940); SÉGUIN, P

Contribution à l’étiologie de la gangrène gazeuse.

Isolation of Cl. histolyticum.

GMN 2521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3297

1969 BROCK, Thomas Dale (1926 – ); FREEZE, Hudson

Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile.

Discovery of Thermus aquaticus, a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures. This is one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcus–Thermus group, and the source of the heat-resistan…

GMN 7967 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10143

1976 CHIEN CHANG, Alice; EDGAR, David B.; TRELA, John M.

Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus.

The authors showed that the heat resistant bacteria Thermus aquaticus discovered by Thomas Brock contained a vital polymerase enzyme that had evolved in this bacteria to allow it to metabolize and survive in exception…

GMN 11104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13300