Many Faces, Many Microbes
Subtitle: Personal Reflections in Microbiology
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781555811907
Subjects: Biography: general; Microbiology (non-medical); Science; Microbiology (General); Biography / Autobiography; Science/Mathematics; Essays; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Scientists - General; Biography; Microbiologists
First sentence: Just over three centuries ago, an obscure man named van Leeuwenhoek looked for the first time into a mysterious new world peopled with a thousand different kinds of tiny beings, some ferocious and deadly, others friendly and useful, many of them more important to mankind than any continent or archipelago....