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Streptococcus pyogenes

Labeled diagram of a bacillus-shaped bacterial cell showing capsule, cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nuclear matter, pili, and a single long flagellum extending from one end.

representative algae

representative protozoans

tobacco mosaic virus

Treponema pallidum

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Key People

Painting by Albert Edelfelt showing Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, holding a glass flask and examining it intently, surrounded by scientific equipment on a workbench.

Louis Pasteur

French chemist and microbiologist

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Peter Piot

Belgian microbiologist

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

French microbiologist

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch scientist

Maurice Hilleman

Maurice Hilleman

American microbiologist

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René Dubos

American microbiologist

Martinus W. Beijerinck

Martinus W. Beijerinck

Dutch microbiologist and botanist

Ōmura Satoshi

Ōmura Satoshi

Japanese microbiologist

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James P. Allison

American immunologist

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Carl Woese

American microbiologist

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Albert Bruce Sabin

American physician and microbiologist

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Charles Yanofsky

American geneticist

Smith, Hamilton O.

Hamilton O. Smith

American biologist

Élie Metchnikoff

Élie Metchnikoff

Russian-born biologist

Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.

Selman Abraham Waksman

American biochemist

Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander

American physician and microbiologist

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Félix d’ Hérelle

Canadian microbiologist

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Alice Evans

American scientist

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John Franklin Enders

American microbiologist

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Dmitry Ivanovsky

Russian microbiologist

Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)

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greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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