Martinus Willem Beijerinck
1851-1931
Swiss botanist who discovered a new form of life even smaller than bacteria (now known to be viruses) while studying a contagious disease that affects tobacco plan...
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Born in Amsterdam, Martinus Willem Beijerinck was the son of a tobacco dealer who went bankrupt. In response to his father's misfortune, Beijerinck would devote most of his scientific career to the to...
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Born in Amsterdam, Beijerinck was the son of a tobacco dealer who went bankrupt. In response to his father's misfortune, Beijerinck devoted most of his scientific career to the tobacco mosaic virus, a...
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Martinus Willem Beijerinck
Martinus Willem Beijerinck
Martinus Willem Beijerinck