death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
15 november 1874 pavia milan italian 01 september 1800 giuseppe gabriel balsamo-crivelli . jpg giuseppe gabriel balsamo-crivelli
 giuseppe gabriel balsamo-crivelli naturalist
giuseppe gabriel balsamo-crivelli

giuseppe gabriel balsamo-crivelli -lrb- 1 september 1800 milan - 15 november 1874 pavia -rrb- was an italian naturalist .
he became a professor of mineralogy and zoology at the university of pavia in 1851 , and was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in 1863 .
he was interested in various domains of natural history , and identified the fungus responsible for the white muscardine disease of silkworms , `` beauveria bassiana '' .
his research kickstarted a spring in zoological research throughout the world .
