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Category: Microbiology History

Fanny Hesse, the Woman Who Introduced Agar to Microbiology

Posted on May 31, 2018July 4, 2022 by Jennifer Tsang

Cultivating microorganisms in the lab has not always been what it is now. Thanks to Angelina Fanny Hesse (1850-1934), microbiologists now have a solid medium to grow microbes in the lab. Before Hesse stepped onto the scene, bacteriologists were cultivating microorganisms on an assortment of food – potato, coagulated egg whites, and meat. In 1819,…

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How Do Koch’s Postulates Hold Up More than A Century Later?

Posted on December 11, 2017July 19, 2022 by Jennifer Tsang

On this date in 1843, Robert Koch, the founder of modern microbiology was born.  And on December 10, 1905, one day before his 62nd birthday, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on tuberculosis.

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