tau281290 said:
Who are all the crazy biologists we need to know?
1. Boveri
2. Sutton
3. Morgan
4. Mendel
5. Beadle
6. Tatum
7. Darwin
8. Lamarck
9. MacFarlane
10. James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins
11. Pasteur
12. Koch
Malaria guys:
13. – 1880: Laveran observed micro-organisms in fresh blood from malarial patients and suggested that malaria was caused by this micro-organisms
14. – 1886: Golgi observed asexual reproduction of microbe in blood of patients
15. – 1894: Patrick Manson proposed that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes
16. – 1898: Grassi discovered that malaria was transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito
17. – 1897-1899: Ronald Ross established that the protozoan Plasmodium was the cause of malaria, winning the Nobel Prize.
1880- Lauran Linked causes of Malaria to a pathogen, the protozoan Plasmodium
80’s-90 – Four different species identified
1894- Manso hypothesised that mosquitoes transmit Malaria
1897- Ross proved Anopheles mosquitoes are the vectors of the Malaria pathogen
1944- Synthetic quinine developed to treat Malaria
WWII- Chloroquinnine made to fight Malaria
1950’s WHO use DDT and drain swaps to kill the vectors hoping to prevent transmission
1995- Trials to make a protective vaccine