Talk:Martinus Beijerinck

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The external link to the detailed biography is dead. In fact, the whole usmusa.org website is gone!

nobel Prize

Does anybody know a reason why this man never got a nobel prize? He was the first to discover and identify viruses, after all...Sikkema 13:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Beijerinck discovered viruses in 1898 and the Nobel Prize was established in 1901, so it would have been possible... But virology remained in its infancy until well after World War 2 and Beijerinck died in 1931. I doubt if anyone recognized the full importance of his discovery during his lifetime. Jaho (talk) 13:24, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Dutch Pronuncitation

Does anyone know how 'Beijerinck' is commonly pronounced. I am not looking for the correct Dutch pronunciation per se, but how it is said in English among those who have a reason to refer to the man who is credited with discovering viruses.

Thanks

Depends what accent you're used to. For UK pronunciation, combine "buyer" and "ink".

I'm Dutch. The above suggestion of buyer-ink comes fairly close to the Dutch pronunciation, but the first vowel in the name ('eij') does not have an equivalent in English (and I've never heard it pronounced correctly by a foreigner ;-), so I guess it's irrelevant to English wikipedia. Jaho (talk) 03:37, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Nitrogen fixation

A primary source is used to establish his priority on the discovery of nitrogen fixation, but a secondary source, the 1905 New International Encyclopædia, gives credit to Hermann Hellriegel and cites an 1888 primary source, which predates the source given for Beijerinck. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 00:40, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Apparently Beijerinck was able to describe the microbiology, while Hellriegel uncovered the fact that water from fertile soil yielded the factor leading to nitrogen fixation. Rgdboer (talk) 02:11, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

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See Chemeurope.com for same or similar text. — Rgdboer (talk) 01:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

They are quoting us! See last line of Chemeurope. Caught by surprise. − Rgdboer (talk) 06:07, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Delft School of Microbiology

Should there be a new article on the Delft School of Microbiology? A possible starting point is The article from THE "DELFT SCHOOL" AND THE RISE OF GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY which was a talk by C. B. Van Neil published in Bacteriol Rev. 1949 Sep;13(3):161-74. There are already articles on several other microbiologists associated with the Delft School.

Who discovered virus?

According to Wikipedia on Dmitri Ivanovsky: "In 1898, the Dutch microbiologist Martinus Beijerinck independently replicated Ivanovsky's experiments and became convinced that the filtered solution contained a new form of infectious agent, which he named virus. Beijerinck subsequently acknowledged Ivanovsky's priority of discovery."

If this is true, Ivanovsky should be the discoverer of virus, but both men are considered to be co-developers of virology.

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