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Martinus Beijerinck
Born
16 March 1851 (1851-03-16)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died
1 January 1931 (1931-02) (aged 79)
Gorssel, Netherlands
Alma mater
Leiden University
Known for
One of the founders of virology, environmental microbiology and general microbiology Conceptual discovery of virus (tobacco mosaic virus) Enrichment culture Biological nitrogen fixation Sulfate-reducing bacteria Nitrogen fixing bacteria Azotobacter (Azotobacter chroococcum) Rhizobium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (Spirillum desulfuricans)
Awards
Leeuwenhoek Medal (1905)
Scientific career
Fields
Microbiology
Institutions
Wageningen University Delft School of Microbiology (founder)
Martinus Willem Beijerinck (Dutch pronunciation:[mɑrˈtinʏsˈʋɪləmˈbɛiərɪŋk], 16 March 1851 – 1 January 1931) was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses (1898), which he called "contagium vivum fluidum".
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Martinus Willem Beijerinck (Dutch pronunciation: [mɑrˈtinʏs ˈʋɪləm ˈbɛiərɪŋk], 16 March 1851 – 1 January 1931) was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist...
causative agent of tobacco mosaic disease (TMV) as a novel pathogen by MartinusBeijerinck (1898) is now acknowledged as being the official beginning of the...
thanks to the pioneering contributions of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and MartinusBeijerinck, Delft can be considered to be the birthplace of microbiology. The...
director Flavius Martinus, vicarius (governor) of the Roman provinces of Britain MartinusBeijerinck, Dutch microbiologist Martinus von Biberach (died...
tobacco plants and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by MartinusBeijerinck in 1898, more than 11,000 of the millions of virus species have been...
ceramic filters then available, giving it almost liquid properties. MartinusBeijerinck (1851–1931), a Dutch microbiologist and botanist, first used the...
used for soil and fecal samples. The microbiologist (and botanist) MartinusBeijerinck is credited with developing the first enrichment cultures.Sergei...
century and the work of MartinusBeijerinck and Sergei Winogradsky that the true breadth of microbiology was revealed. Beijerinck made two major contributions...
infectious to healthy tobacco plants despite having been filtered. MartinusBeijerinck called the filtered, infectious substance a "virus" and this discovery...
discovered and described in 1901 by Dutch microbiologist and botanist MartinusBeijerinck. Azotobacter species are Gram-negative bacteria found in neutral...
established by Gerrit van Iterson Jr., TU Delft graduate and assistant to MartinusBeijerinck. Gerrit van Iterson Jr. was the first director of the garden until...
microorganisms) and in 1892–1898 by Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky and MartinusBeijerinck (of the "submicroscopic" viruses). The unique properties of viroids...
antibacterial mechanism of action. Agar diffusion was first used by MartinusBeijerinck in 1889 to study the effect of auxins on bacterial growth. However...
2015, it had a population of 4,043. The microbiologist and botanist MartinusBeijerinck lived in Gorssel for the last part of his life, and died there in...
efficient crops such as sugar cane. Chlorella was first described by MartinusBeijerinck in 1890. Since then, over a hundred taxa have been described within...
due to consumption of oxygen by aerobic microorganisms. In 1913, MartinusBeijerinck repeated Van Leeuwenhoek's experiment and identified Clostridium...
Gram-negative, obligate chemolithoautotroph. It was originally discovered by MartinusBeijerinck in 1904. T. denitrificans is particularly notable for its ability...
typical example. Rhizobium is also capable of solubilizing phosphate. MartinusBeijerinck was the first to isolate and cultivate a microorganism from the nodules...
the hereditary information necessary to form an individual. 1898 – MartinusBeijerinck used filtering experiments to show that tobacco mosaic disease is...
institute. The prize is named in honor of the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Willem Beijerinck. KNAW appoints an advisory committee which gives advice to KNAW...
Chamberland filters and to be detected in the light microscope. In 1898, MartinusBeijerinck independently replicated Ivanovsky's filtration experiments and then...
German agronomist Hermann Hellriegel and the Dutch microbiologist MartinusBeijerinck. Crop rotation, mechanisation, chemical and natural fertilisers led...
and MartinusBeijerinck in 1898, who showed that the infectious agent of the tobacco mosaic disease was in fact infilterable. MartinusBeijerinck coined...
"species" have been named in this genus since it was defined by MartinusBeijerinck in 1904, (the first strain was observed by the biological oceanographer...
exactly. The grains called ginger beer plant, which according to MartinusBeijerinck were brought by the British soldiers while returning to their country...
Southeast Asia, and the tobacco mosaic virus which caused scientist MartinusBeijerinck to coin the term "virus" in 1898. Bacterial plant pathogens cause...
Due to the high quantities of microbes and the ease of dispersion, MartinusBeijerinck once said "Everything is everywhere, the environment selects". This...
into vinegar in the presence of oxygen. In the late 19th century, MartinusBeijerinck (Dutch microbiologist) isolated various bacteria involved in vinegar...