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2 unusual facts about Martinus Beijerinck


Martinus Beijerinck

At the time, Delft, then a Polytechnic, did not have the right to confer doctorates, so Leiden did this for them.

He became a teacher in microbiology at the Agricultural School in Wageningen (now Wageningen University) and later at the Polytechnische Hogeschool Delft (Delft Polytechnic, currently Delft University of Technology) (from 1895).


Azomonas agilis

agilis was first isolated and described by Martinus Beijerinck in 1901, who obtained the species from Dutch canal water in Delft.


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