On This Day in History: September 15, 1928
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while sorting through petri dishes of Staphylococcus. The accidental breakthrough became the world’s first widely used antibiotic.
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while sorting through petri dishes of Staphylococcus. The accidental breakthrough became the world’s first widely used antibiotic.
September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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A. baumannii is a typically short, almost round, rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium. It is named after the bacteriologist Paul Baumann. It can affect people with compromised immune systems and is almost exclusively isolated from hospital environments. It's natural habitat is still not known.
September 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Series D with Soseki (left) and new Series F (2024–) with physician and bacteriologist Kitasato Shibasaburō and Hokusai's iconic Great Wave off Kanagawa.
September 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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#OnThisDay in 1928, Penicillin was accidentally discovered by bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming changing the course of medicine.
September 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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1/5/1895 — b. Rebecca Lancefield, American microbiologist, bacteriologist. Renowned international developer of the bacterium streptococcus classification system; the Lancefield system remains key to the medical interpretation of streptococcal diseases #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #OTD
January 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Don't forget bacteriologist.
January 20, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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On this day in 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza
September 16, 2023 at 1:19 AM
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895)
December 27, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Oh and strictly bacteria people use the term bacteriologist, sometimes as well.
January 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Jane Hinton was an American veterinarian and bacteriologist best known for her groundbreaking work on antibiotic susceptibility testing.
February 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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July 12, 1923: Alexander Marmorek, a bacteriologist who discovered lifesaving treatments for tuberculosis and puerperal fever and led the Zionist movement in France, dies in Paris at 58. (Buffalo Jewish Review)
December 5, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me. -Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895)
December 27, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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... already a well-known figure for the League of Nations. Professor Madsen served as a bacteriologist on the subcommittee together with professor Jules Bordet from the Pasteur Institute in Brussels, professor ...
June 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Adah Elizabeth Verder (1900-1997) was a US medical bacteriologist and science administrator. She was a researcher in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, specializing in gastrointestinal flora and staphylococci, pseudomonas, and pleuropneumonia organisms.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Doctors are at first confounded by the illnesses, as they show no signs of ptomaine, the usual form of food poisoning. A bacteriologist finally studies the duck paste and identifies the toxic botulism spores, which can be produced in sealed containers lacking oxygen. 3/4
December 9, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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August 1924: Hilda Hempl Heller, a bacteriologist with the Field Museum in Chicago, relaxing while at a science conference in Toronto.
November 25, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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My maternal grandfather was a bacteriologist who wrote some popular science books in the late 1920s.
October 5, 2023 at 2:59 PM
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❝The cell concept is the axis around which the whole science of modern life revolves.❞
— Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist, born #onthisday 🌟14 Mar 1854.
Read more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/E/Ehrlich_Pa...
— Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist, born #onthisday 🌟14 Mar 1854.
Read more of his #quotes at todayinsci.com/E/Ehrlich_Pa...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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4/3/1913 — b. Mary Barber, British bacteriologist, pathologist, professor, author. A pioneer of clinical bacteriology, early researcher of penicillin resistance. Improved knowledge of microbial resistance; lectured on antibiotic resistance, many papers(1950s-60s) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistSci
April 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The anaerobic bacteriologist tendency to accept blame for every sulfurous smell in our building (it wasn’t us!)
March 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Sahachiro Hata, Japanese bacteriologist, born 23rd March 1873. In Frankfurt he joined the team of Paul Ehrlich who was researching treatments for syphilis. Hata demonstrated that "compound 606", synthesized by Alfred Bertheim, was effective in experimentally infected rabbits.
November 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Charles Chamberland, born 12th March 1851, was a pioneering French bacteriologist. He was assistant to Louis Pasteur and together they created a filtering device that removed bacteria from water. Chamberland's other research projects led to the development of the autoclave.
November 24, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Iranian physician and bacteriologist, Dr. Anzar Andami developed the El Tor cholera vaccine. 💉
El Tor is an acute diarrheal disease caused by the cholera bacterium. 🦠
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El Tor is an acute diarrheal disease caused by the cholera bacterium. 🦠
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#womenshistory
May 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me." -Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895) (TY Wordsmith.org for the quote)
December 27, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist was born on 30th October 1895. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1939 for his work performed in 1931, demonstrating the antibacterial activity of sulfonamides, in particular the agent known as Prontosil Red (sulfamidochrysoidine).
November 24, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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