At the time, Delft, then a Polytechnic, did not have the right to confer doctorates, so Leiden did this for them.
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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).
Martinus Nijhoff | Martinus Rørbye | Rudi Martinus van Dijk | Martinus Beijerinck | Martinus |
agilis was first isolated and described by Martinus Beijerinck in 1901, who obtained the species from Dutch canal water in Delft.