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Ponduri Venkata Ramana Rao

Ponduri Venkata Ramana Rao (3 April 1917 – 13 April 2005) was a renowned Microbiologist of Andhra Pradesh, India.


Aschner

Manfred Aschner (1901–1989), German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist

Augusts Kirhenšteins

Augusts Kirhenšteins, formerly spelt Kirchenšteins (September 18, 1872 in Mazsalaca – November 3, 1963 in Riga), was a Latvian microbiologist and educator.

Australian Legends

2002 – Medical Scientists, haematologist Professor Donald Metcalf, microbiologist Professor Nancy Millis, immunologists Professor Sir Gustav Nossal and Professor Peter C. Doherty, and epidemiologist and public health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley

Ben Rubin

Benjamin Rubin (1917–2010), microbiologist and inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle for smallpox

Cortodoxone

On April 5, 1952, biochemist Durey Peterson and microbiologist Herbert Murray at Upjohn published the first report of a breakthrough fermentation process for the microbial 11α-oxygenation of steroids (e.g. progesterone) in a single step by common molds of the order Mucorales.

Gamaleya

Nikolay Gamaleya (1859–1949), Russian and Soviet microbiologist and vaccine researcher

Gramicidin

In 1939 the French microbiologist René Dubos isolated the substance tyrothricin and later showed that it was composed of two substances, gramicidin (20%) and tyrocidine (80%).

Gregory Charles Royal

The son of biochemist and microbiologist husband and wife team Gladys W. Royal and George C. Royal, Royal, who is described by Slide Hampton as "one of the important guys on the horn", grew up in Washington, DC.

Greta Stevenson

Returning to New Zealand, while her children were young she was employed with the Wellington City Council as an analyst and a soil microbiologist for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research soil bureau.

Hamilton Smith

Hamilton O. Smith (born 1931), American microbiologist and Nobel laureate

Hanahan

Douglas Hanahan, American microbiologist who developed SOB medium, and cancer researcher and co-author of the classic "Hallmarks of Cancer" paper

Hate speech laws in Canada

In Chopra v. Health Canada, 2008 CHRT 39, Pierre Deschamps ruled that Shiv Chopra, a microbiologist at Health Canada, was entitled to $4,000 in damages from Health Canada for hurt feelings, lost wages, and interest.

Heinrich Anton de Bary

He published more than 100 research papers and influenced many students who later became distinguished botanists and microbiologists such as Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953), William Gilson Farlow (1844–1919), and Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet (1838–1902).

Homebrewing

French microbiologist Louis Pasteur explained the role of yeast in beer fermentation in 1857, allowing brewers to develop strains of yeast with desirable properties (conversion efficiency, ability to handle higher alcohol content).

Jim Dobbin

James "Jim" Dobbin (born 26 May 1941) is a British Labour Co-operative politician and microbiologist, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton since 1997.

John Henry Warcup

He worked as a member of the Botany Department in the UK Forestry Commission until 1951, when he accepted a position as a senior microbiologist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the then Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide where he worked until his retirement in 1986.

Jörg Hacker

Jörg Hinrich Hacker (born 13 February 1952 in Grevesmühlen, Mecklenburg) is a German microbiologist.

Kirov Islands

This island is named after Russian microbiologist and botanist Boris Isachenko.

Martyn Jones

He is a microbiologist, and worked at the Wrexham Lager Beer Company from 1969 until June 1987 before his election to the House of Commons.

Michael Bishop

J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), American immunologist & microbiologist

Norbert Pfennig

Norbert Pfennig (born 8 July 1925 in Kassel — died 11 February 2008 in Überlingen) was a German microbiologist.

Pennsauken Township, New Jersey

Harold Amos (1918–2003), microbiologist and professor, who was the first black department chairman at Harvard Medical School.

Penny Slinger

Penny Singer was the second wife of microbiologist Christopher Hills, who was co-discoverer of the protein-rich plankton spirulina, the base for many natural food products, and founded the University of the Trees in Boulder Creek, California.

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

The Institute's visiting professors to date have been the intellectual historian Arif Dirlik (in 2005), the Nobel prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffman (in 2008), and French neurophysiologist Alain Berthoz (in 2009), computer scientist Barbara Grosz (in 2010), and cognitive neuroscientist, Stanislas Dehaene (2011), and microbiologist, Philippe Sansonetti (2011).

Thomas A. Bickle

Thomas Anthony Bickle (born 23 December 1940 in Norfolk, UK) is a British/Swiss microbiologist.

William Patrick

William C. Patrick III (1926-2010), U.S. Army microbiologist and bioweaponeer


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