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Agostino Bassi

1773 - 1856

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Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi (25 September 1773 – 8 February 1856), was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. In 1844, he stated the idea that not only animal (insect), but also human diseases are caused by other living microorganisms; for example, measles, syphilis, and the plague. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agostino Bassi is the 561st most popular biologist (down from 471st in 2019). (up from 2,761st in 2019)

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Among biologists, Agostino Bassi ranks 561 out of 1,097. Before him are Casimir de Candolle, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Sarah Gilbert, Carl Ludwig Koch, René Maire, and Ludwig Diels. After him are Johann Friedrich Naumann, Karl Möbius, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Wilhem de Haan, Alfred Newton, and Alwin Berger.

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Among people born in 1773, Agostino Bassi ranks 38. Before him are Henrik Steffens, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob Friedrich Fries, Lodewijk van Heiden, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, and Joseph de Villèle. After him are Jacob Aall, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Yuri Lisyansky, Sally Hemings, Josef August Schultes, and Johann Karl Burckhardt. Among people deceased in 1856, Agostino Bassi ranks 38. Before him are Emil Aarestrup, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Vicente López y Planes, Lev Perovski, and Karel Havlíček Borovský. After him are Henry Pottinger, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Ninomiya Sontoku, Jovan Sterija Popović, Josef Kajetán Tyl, and Johan August Wahlberg.

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