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Martinus Beijerinck Edit Profile
Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist.
Education
Born in Amsterdam, Beijerinck studied at the Technical School of Delft, where he was awarded the degree of Chemical Engineer in 1872.
He obtained his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Leiden in 1877.
Career
At the time, Delft, then a Polytechnic, did not have the right to confer doctorates, so Leiden did this for them.
Martinus beijerinck awardsHe became a teacher in microbiology at the Agricultural School in Wageningen (now Wageningen University) and later at the Polytechnische Hogeschool Delft (Delft Polytechnic, currently Delft University of Technology) (from 1895).
He established the Delft School of Microbiology.
His studies of agricultural and industrial microbiology yielded fundamental discoveries in the field of biology.
He is considered one of the founders of virology.
In 1898, he published results on the filtration experiments de