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Also Known As Rebecca Craighill Lancefield • Rebecca Price Craighill
Born January 5, 1895 • New York
Died March 3, 1981 (aged 86) • New York
Subjects Of Study Streptococcus
Alice Evans
American scientist
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-American scientist
David Hendricks Bergey
American bacteriologist
Simon Flexner
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Hans Zinsser
American bacteriologist and epidemiologist
David Bruce
British physician
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Kitasato Shibasaburo, c. 1928.
Kitasato Shibasaburo
Japanese physician and bacteriologist
Yersin, Alexandre
Alexandre Yersin
French bacteriologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Bordet, Jules
Jules Bordet
Belgian bacteriologist
Sir Almroth Edward Wright
British bacteriologist and immunologist
Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky
Russian microbiologist
Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and bacteriologist
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor