| Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
(one of the first and most renowned microscopists)
Observations concerning little animals observed in rain-, well-, sea- and
snow-water
Microscopical observations about animals in the scurf of the teeth |
Turbevill Needham
(a proponent of "spontaneous genereation")
Observations on the generation, composition, and decomposition of animal
and vegetable substances (1748) |
Lazaro Spallanzani
(an opponent of "spontaneous genereation")
Tracts on the nature of animals and vegetables; observations and experiments
upon
the animalcula of infusions (1799) |
Theodore Schwann
Preliminary report on experiments concerning alcoholic fermentation and
putrefaction (1837) |
Charles Cagniard-Latour
Memoir on alcoholic fermentation (1838) |
Justis Liebig
Concerning the phenomena of fermentation, putrefaction, and decay, and
their causes (1839) |
Louis Pasteur
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Report on the lactic acid fermentation (abstract, 1857) |
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Memoir on the alcoholic fermentation (1860) |
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Animal infusoria living in the absence of free oxygen, and the fermentations
they bring about (1861) |
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