History of Microbiology

Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier discovered human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas performed the first successful organ transplants by using immunosuppressive agents.
Agre and MacKirron discovered water and ion channels in plasma membranes.
Fire and Mello discovered RNA interference (RNAi), or gene silencing, by double-stranded RNA.

Trio of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (India), Thomas A. Steitz (United States), and Ada E. Yonath (Israel) was awarded Nobel Prize in 2010 India for detailed study of the structure and function of ribosomes.

Marshall and Warren discovered that Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulcers.

Lederberg, Beadle, and Tatum described genetic control of biochemical reactions and awarded Nobel Prize in 1958 for this work.

Correct answer. Ronald Ross discovere of how malaria is transmitted and was awarded Nobel Prize in 1902 for his work. The trio of Joshua Lederberg, George Beadle, and Edward Tatum was awarded Nobel Prize in 1958 for describing genetic control of biochemical reactions.
Susumu Tonegawa was awarded Nobel Prize in  1987 for describing the genetics of antibody production.
Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren were awarded Noble in 2005  for discovery that Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulcers.

Both Vibiro cholerae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis were discovered by Robert Koch.

Robert Koch (1843-1910) established experimental stepsfor directly linking a specific microbe to a specific disease.

Edmond H. Fisher and Edwin G. Krebs discovered protein kinases, enzymes that regulate cell growth.

Bishop and Varmus discovered cancer-causing genes called oncogenes and awarded Nobel Prize in 1989 for this work.

Peter Agre and Roderick MacKirron shared 2003 Nobel Prize for discovery of water and ion channels in plasma membranes.

Werner Arber, Dan Nathans and Hamilton Smith shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics.
Howard Martin Temin, Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for discovery of reverse transcriptase.
Rodney Porter and Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize of 1972 for discovery of antibodies.
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, and Hartmut Michel  shared 1988 Noble Prize for describing the structure of bacterial photosynthetic pigments.

Roberts and Sharp discovered that a gene can be separated onto different segments of DNA.
Kary B. Mullis discovered the polymerase chain reaction to amplify (make multiple copies of) DNA.
Peter C. Doherty (Australia) and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (Switzerland) discovered how cytotoxic T cells recognize virus-infected cells prior to destroying them and were awarded Nobel Prize in 1996 for this work.
Ciechanover, Hershko, and Rose discovered how cells dispose of unwanted proteins in proteasomes.

Richard J. Roberts (Great Britain) and Phillip A. Sharp (United States) discovered that a gene can be separated onto different segments of DNA and received Nobel Prize in 1993 for this work.

César Milstein (Argentina), Georges J. F. Köhler (Germany), and Niels Kai Jerne (Denmark) shared 1984 Nobel Prize for developing a technique for producing monoclonal antibodies (single pure antibodies).

The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe and describe live microorganisms.
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.