biography
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Cohn, Ferdinand (Julius)
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| lived:
| (1828–98)
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| biography:
| Botanist and bacteriologist, born in Wrocław, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia). He received his doctorate from Berlin at the age of 19. Professor of botany at Breslau (1859) and founder of the Institute of Plant Physiology, he is regarded as the father of bacteriology, in that he was the first to account it a separate science. He did important research in plant pathology, and worked with Robert Koch on anthrax. |
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