BEIJERINCK, Martinus Willem (1851 – 1931)
1851 – 1931
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1898 CE
#2512
Ueber ein Contagium vivum fluidum als Ursache der Fleckenkrankheit der Tabaksblätter.
Beijerinck confirmed the findings of Ivanovski. He showed that the tobacco mosaic virus would diffuse through agar. "Like Ivanovsky before him and Adolf Mayer, predecessor at Wageningen, Beijerinck could not culture t…
1901 CE
#12789
Über oligonitrophile Mikroben.
Discovery of nitrogen fixation, the process by which diatomic nitrogen gas is converted to ammonium ions and becomes available to plants. Bacteria perform nitrogen fixation, dwelling inside root nodules of certain pla…