How Seeing Became Knowing: The Role of the Electron Microscope in Shaping the Modern Definition of Viruses

Abstract This paper examines the vital role played by electron microscopy toward the modern definition of viruses, as formulated in the late 1950s. Before the 1930s viruses could neither be visualized by available technologies nor grown in artificial media. As such they were usually identified by th...
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van Helvoort, Ton [verfasserIn]

Sankaran, Neeraja

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2018

Schlagwörter:

Electron microscope

Modern definition of viruses

Visualization

Virus morphology

Virus classification

Virus multiplication

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© Springer Nature B.V. 2018

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Enthalten in: Journal of the history of biology - Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 1968, 52(2018), 1 vom: 20. Juni, Seite 125-160

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volume:52 ; year:2018 ; number:1 ; day:20 ; month:06 ; pages:125-160

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s10739-018-9530-2

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SPR012844233

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