Dmitri ivanovsky and martinus beijerinck biography family

He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses , which he called " contagium vivum fluidum ". Born in Amsterdam , Beijerinck studied at the Technical School of Delft, where he was awarded the degree of biology in He obtained his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Leiden in 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 established the Delft School of Microbiology. His studies of agricultural and industrial microbiology yielded fundamental discoveries in the field of biology. His achievements have been perhaps unfairly overshadowed by those of his contemporaries, Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur , because unlike them, Beijerinck never studied human disease.

In , he wrote his first notable research paper, discussing plant galls. The paper later became the basis for his doctoral dissertation. He is considered one of the founders of virology. His results were in accordance with the similar observation made by Dmitri Ivanovsky in He named the new pathogen virus to indicate its non-bacterial nature.