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Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck

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Dutch microbiologist (1851-1931)

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Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses (1898), which he called "contagium vivum fluidum".

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