The Leeuwenhoek Lecture - The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concept

1959/03/17 by David Keilin, D. Keilin · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · #History of Medical Practice #History of Medicine Studies #Medical History and Innovations

paper · doi:10.1098/rspb.1959.0013

openalex publication_date 1959/03/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Abstract The eight previous Leeuwenhoek Lectures covered a great variety of problems is bacteriology and virology, and each of the lecturers paid an enthusiastic tribute Antony van Leeuwenhoek as the founder of microbiology. When the Council honoured me by their invitation to deliver the ninth Leeuwen hoek Lecture I thought that it would be appropriate to devote it to the problem of anabiosis or latent life.

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