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Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Oil painting by Jan Verkolje showing Antonie van Leeuwenhoek seated at a table with a globe, papers, inkstand, and a compass in hand, wearing a brown robe and white shirt.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Kitasato Shibasaburo, c. 1928.
Kitasato Shibasaburo
Japanese physician and bacteriologist
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Alice Evans
American scientist
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David Bruce
British physician
Yersin, Alexandre
Alexandre Yersin
French bacteriologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
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Sir Almroth Edward Wright
British bacteriologist and immunologist
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Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky
Russian microbiologist
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Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and bacteriologist
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist
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Friedrich August Johannes Löffler
German bacteriologist
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-born physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist
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David Hendricks Bergey
American bacteriologist

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