Martinus Willem Beijerinck: His Life and his Work

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Descent....Pages 3-5
Childhood....Pages 6-10
Adolescence....Pages 11-12
The Secondary School Teacher....Pages 13-18
The Industrial Microbiologist....Pages 19-22
The Academic Teacher....Pages 23-34
Beijerinck at Work....Pages 35-40
The Retired Scholar....Pages 41-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Studies on Galls....Pages 51-60
Morphological Investigations on Adventitious Formations and Regeneration Phenomena....Pages 61-67
Studies on Phyllotaxis....Pages 68-70
Minor Morphological Researches....Pages 71-73
Cross-Breeding Experiments....Pages 74-78
Investigations on Gummosis....Pages 79-82
Studies on Starch, and Problems of Colloid Chemistry....Pages 83-85
Pure Cultures of Algae....Pages 86-89
Considerations on Heredity....Pages 90-93
Bacterial Root Nodules....Pages 94-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-99
The Birth of the Microbiologist....Pages 100-101
Growth and Maturation of the Microbiologist....Pages 102-105
Front Matter....Pages 97-99
A More Detailed Appreciation of Beijerinck’s Main Contributions to Microbiology....Pages 106-152
The Envoy....Pages 153-154
Back Matter....Pages 155-193