Microbe Hunters (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul De Kruif
- First Published: 1926
- Time of Work: 1670–1910
- Setting: The Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, South Africa, India, and Cuba
- Principal Characters: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Élie Metchnikoff, Theobald Smith, David Bruce, Walter Reed, Paul Ehrlich
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Doctors, Medicine, Italy or Italians, Microbiology, Germany or German people, Netherlands or Dutch people, Biography, Russia or Russian people, Biology or biologists
- Locales: France, United States, Cuba, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, South Africa, India
Form and Content
In Microbe Hunters, Paul de Kruif joins together twelve short biographies of thirteen significant individuals in the sciences of bacteriology and immunology. De Kruif directs his attention largely toward the great nineteenth and twentieth century pioneers in the struggle against microbial diseases: Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Walter Reed, and Paul Ehrlich. He also takes note, however, of such lesser-known figures as Theobald Smith, David Bruce, Ronald Ross, and Battista Grassi, as well as two prenineteenth century researchers of microbes, the early...
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