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  2. Timeline of biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    1838 – Protein discovered, named and recorded by Gerardus Johannes Mulder and Jöns Jacob Berzelius. 1862 – Louis Pasteur discovers the bacterial origin of fermentation. 1863 – Gregor Mendel discovers the laws of inheritance. 1864 – Antonin Prandtl [wikidata] invents first centrifuge to separate cream from milk.

  3. History of biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    History of biotechnology. Brewing was an early example of biotechnology. Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and services. [1] From its inception, biotechnology has maintained a close relationship with society.

  4. History of biology - Wikipedia

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    The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.

  5. Thomas Hunt Morgan - Wikipedia

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    Chester Ittner Bliss. Tan Jiazhen. Signature. Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) [2] was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.

  6. History of molecular biology - Wikipedia

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    The history of molecular biology begins in the 1930s with the convergence of various, previously distinct biological and physical disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, virology and physics. With the hope of understanding life at its most fundamental level, numerous physicists and chemists also took an interest in what would become ...

  7. Edward Jenner - Wikipedia

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    Edward Jenner. Edward Jenner FRS FRCPE [1] (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. [2][3] The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to ...

  8. History of biochemistry - Wikipedia

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    The history of biochemistry can be said to have started with the ancient Greeks who were interested in the composition and processes of life, although biochemistry as a specific scientific discipline has its beginning around the early 19th century. [1] Some argued that the beginning of biochemistry may have been the discovery of the first ...

  9. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature. [1][2][3][4][5][6] The Scientific Revolution took place in Europe in the ...