Symbiosis
Beatrix Potter
Her illustrations of Peter Rabbit and other children books are well-known and beloved. But she was also a superb scientific illustrator and biologist. She had a special interest in mycology and made significant observations of lichens that supported the early hypothesis of symbiosis between an alga and a fungus. This theory was rejected by contemporary British botanists. Because she was a woman and a symbiologist, she was denied permission to read a paper on her work at the Linnean Society in London. In 1997, the Society issued a posthumous apology for her shabby treatment as a scientist. Many of her exquisite illustrations still await publication.
Of Rabbits and Mycology - Antibiotics in Action
Beatrix Potter summary of biography
Bacteria - Animal Symbiosis
Home page for bacteria - animal symbioses: Symbiotic interactions between bacteria and animals are described with links to home pages of researchers and to publications
Another brilliant biologist who has been denied proper recognition because of her gender. She has been the prime proponent of the theory of symbiogenesis, the endosymbiotic origin of the eukaryotic cell and has contributed other fundamental insights in biology.
History: Endosymbiosis
Lynn Margulis revived the theory of symbiogenesis.
Dangerous and not so dangerous liaisons [pdf]
Intro to special section of Science Magazine on symbioses
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Here considered to be humanity's greatest benefactor...
The Curse of Louis Pasteur, Nancy Ph.D Appleton
Others see Pasteur's work as a mixed blessing.
The Dream and Lie of Louis Pasteur
In this 1940 book (full-text online), Pasteur is described as a plagiarist and an imposter
t h e d o c t o r w i t h i n
"Pasteur himself in one of the most quoted deathbed statements perhaps of all time, recanted the Theory and admitted that his rivals had been right, and that it was not the germ that caused the disease, but rather the environment in which the germ was found: 'Bernard acail raison; le terrain c'est tout, le germe c'est rien'."
Soil Food Web: Services/Products
Elaine Ingham's SFI, Inc.
Ingham Article
The Soil Foodweb: It's Importance in Ecosystem Health by Elaine Ingam
Many of the stories outlined here are told in a delightful way in the book:
Wakeford, Tom
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