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Cohn   /koʊn/   Listen
Cohn

noun
1.
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.  Synonym: Ferdinand Julius Cohn.






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... infective diseases. We distinguish within this group two widely different series of forms, which we will speak of as bacilli and cocco-bacteria respectively. The former, which was first exhaustively described by Ferdinand Cohn, and the pathological importance of which, especially in relation to the splenic disease of cattle, was first shown by Koch, consist of threads, in the interior of which permanent or resting-spores are developed. These spores becoming free, are able, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various



Words linked to "Cohn" :   plant scientist, botanist, phytologist



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