microbiologist

Updated: May 23, 2025

If we accept the hypotheses of the microbiologist Ehrenberg who believes that these underwater depths are lit up by phosphorescent organisms nature has certainly saved one of her most prodigious sights for residents of the sea, and I could judge for myself from the thousandfold play of the light. On both sides I had windows opening over these unexplored depths.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The agricultural chemist and the microbiologist of the latter end of the nineteenth century have laid considerable stress upon the prospects of using the minute organisms which attach themselves to the roots of some plants particularly those of the leguminaceæ as the means of fixing the nitrogen of the atmosphere, and rendering it available for the plant-food of cereals which are not endowed with the faculty of encouraging those bacteria which fix nitrogen.

George Sutherland - Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast

How such means might be found now became the anxious thought of every imaginative physician, of every working microbiologist. As it happened, the world was not kept long in suspense. Almost before the proposition had taken shape in the minds of the other leaders, Pasteur had found a solution.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4