His achievements have been perhaps unfairly overshadowed by those of his contemporaries, Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, because unlike them, Beijerinck never studied human disease.
他却不公平的被同时代的罗伯特·科赫和路易斯·巴斯德所掩盖，因为与他们不同，拜耶林克没研究过人类疾病。