Martinus Willem Beijerinck
Martinus Willem Beijerinck is a Botaniste and a microbiologist Dutch, born the March 16th 1851 with Amsterdam and dead on January 1st 1931.
He works in particular at Polytechnische Hogeschool (or polytechnic institute) of Delft starting from 1895. It is interested in microbiology applied to the Agriculture and Industrie lle. Its discoveries are probably as important as those of Robert Koch (1843-1910) or of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) made at the same time, but Beijerinck is not devoted to the human health and they thus do not have the same impact.
He is regarded as one of the founders of Virologie and shows, by the use of extremely fine filters, that the disease-causing agent responsible for the disease of the Mosaïque of the tobacco is smaller than a Bactérie. He names then this pathogenic Virus. He receives the Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1905. Beijerinck also discovers the principle of fixing of the Azote at the plants.
Price Virology M.W. Beijerinck
In its honor, the royal Academy of arts and sciences Dutchwoman, KNAW, founded in 1965 the Prix Virology M.W. Beijerinck.
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