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The following is a list of notable microbiologists who have made significant contributions to the study of microorganisms. Many of those listed have received a Nobel prize for their contributions to the field of microbiology. The others are typically considered historical figures whose work in microbiology had a notable impact in the field.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 for discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical reactions within cells. 7th president of the University of Chicago. Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822), German naturalist, [ 32 ] ornithologist, entomologist and herpetologist known for his treatise on singing birds Naturgeschichte der ...
2000 BC: Multiplication tables in a base-60, rather than base-10 (decimal), system from Babylon. [7] 2000 BC: Primitive positional notation for numerals is seen in the Babylonian cuneiform numerals. [8] However, the lack of clarity around the notion of zero made their system highly ambiguous (e.g. 13 200 would be written the same as 132). [9]
For their role in the Manhattan Project: Aerodynamics: Nikolai Zhukovsky George Cayley [133] Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow, was the first engineer scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift. Cayley Investigated theoretical aspects of flight and experimented with flight a century before the ...
List of modern Arab scientists and engineers List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars List of fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other. [1] "Sometimes", writes Merton, "the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a ...