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| Hans Christian Gram: Google is celebrating the 166th birthday of Danish bacteriologist Photo: Google/Getty/NC) |
Gram entered medical school in 1878, graduated in 1883 and took off travelling.
Making his way through Europe, he found himself in Berlin in 1884.
There, he developed a method for distinguishing between two major classes of bacteria.
This technique, known as the Gram strain, continues to be a standard procedure used in medical microbiology around the world...
As a professor, he published four volumes of clinical lectures which became widely used in Denmark.
He retired from the University of Copenhagen in 1923, and died in 1938, aged 81.
The Google doodle that honours Gram on his birth anniversary today was illustrated by Danish guest artist Mikkel Sommer.
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Source: Express.co.uk
Making his way through Europe, he found himself in Berlin in 1884.
There, he developed a method for distinguishing between two major classes of bacteria.
This technique, known as the Gram strain, continues to be a standard procedure used in medical microbiology around the world...
As a professor, he published four volumes of clinical lectures which became widely used in Denmark.
He retired from the University of Copenhagen in 1923, and died in 1938, aged 81.
The Google doodle that honours Gram on his birth anniversary today was illustrated by Danish guest artist Mikkel Sommer.
Read more...
Source: Express.co.uk
