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Born June 24, 1852 • Frankfurt an der Oder • Germany
Died April 9, 1915 (aged 62) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study Corynebacterium diphtheriae • diphtheria
Edwin Klebs
German physician and bacteriologist
Émile Roux
Émile Roux
French bacteriologist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Emil von Behring, 1914.
Emil von Behring
German bacteriologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
Hans Buchner
German bacteriologist
August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist
David Bruce
British physician
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Kitasato Shibasaburo, c. 1928.
Kitasato Shibasaburo
Japanese physician and bacteriologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
Yersin, Alexandre
Alexandre Yersin
French bacteriologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Sir Almroth Edward Wright
British bacteriologist and immunologist
Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky
Russian microbiologist