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George Miller Sternberg
(1838–1915)
Military Physician
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George Miller Sternberg was a military physician, best known for Photo-micrographs and how to make them ...
Quick Facts About George Miller Sternberg
- Born
- June 8, 1838
- Died
- November 3, 1915
- Profession
- Military Physician
- Notable works
- Photo-micrographs and how to make them ..
About George Miller Sternberg
Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first American bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886).
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