An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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WINOGRADSKY, Sergei Nikolaievich

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Sur les organisms de la nitrification.

Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 110, 1013-1016, 1890.

In his research on nitrifying bacteria Winogradsky discovered the first known form of chemoautotrophy in which organisms obtain energy by oxidation of electron donors in their environments without the intervention of light energy. This was a key discovery in the nitrogen cycle.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY, BIOLOGY › Ecology / Environment, MICROBIOLOGY › Environmental Microbiology