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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

DOWNES, Sir Arthur Henry (1851 – 1938)

1851 – 1938

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1877 CE

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Researches on the effect of light upon bacteria and other organisms.

DOWNES, Sir Arthur Henry (1851 – 1938) BLUNT, Thomas Porter (1842 – 1929)

Downes and Blunt were the first to demonstrate the bactericidal action of sunlight; they regarded the germicidal property of light as depending on oxidation.