Adolf Mayer
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Adolf Eduard Mayer (9 August 1843 – 25 December 1942) was a German agricultural biologist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses in general.
Mayer was born in 1843 into the family of a high school teacher in Oldenburg. His mother was a daughter of renowned German chemist
University of Heidelberg
, where in 1864 he graduated summa cum laude with a Ph.D. in biology.
In 1879, while Mayer held the position of the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at
Dmitry Ivanovsky in 1892 and Martinus Beijerinck in 1898, who showed that the infectious agent of the tobacco mosaic disease was in fact infilterable. Martinus Beijerinck coined the term of "virus" to indicate a non-bacterial nature of the tobacco mosaic disease. In 1935, the tobacco mosaic virus was the first virus to be crystallized. Despite the erroneous conclusion, Mayer's pioneer work on the tobacco mosaic disease served as an important step in the discovery of viruses and led to the foundation of the field of virology.[2]
References
- ^ Mayer, Adolf (1886). "Über die Mosaikkrankheit des Tabaks". Die Landwirtschaftliche Versuchs-stationen (in German). 32: 451––467. Translated into English in Johnson, J., Ed. (1942) Phytopathological classics (St. Paul, Minnesota: American Phytopathological Society) No. 7, pp. 11–-24.
- ISBN 978-981-02-1313-8. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
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