Ferdinand Cohn: References & Edit History
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For Ferdinand Cohn’s place in science, see William Bulloch, The History of Bacteriology (1938); and H.A. Lechevalier and M. Solotorovsky, Three Centuries of Microbiology (1965). A second edition of the English translation of Cohn’s book, Bacteria: The Smallest of Living Organisms (1939), contains a bibliography of his publications. His wife, Pauline Cohn, wrote his biography, Ferdinand Cohn: Blätter der Erinnerung (1901).
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| Anniversary information added. | Jun 21, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 20, 2026 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 22, 2024 | ||
| Added "Ferdinand Julius Cohn" as a title variant. | Apr 18, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Jewish Encyclopedia - Biography of Ferdinand Julius Cohn. | Sep 13, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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