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The “Petri” Dish: A Case of Simultaneous Invention in Bacteriology (2019)

Shama, Gilbert (Author)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 11-16

DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2019.04.001

URI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016093271830111X

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Scientific apparatus and instruments Biology Inventors and invention Petri dish Bacteriology 19th century Petri, Richard Julius

Richard Julius Petri’s status as inventor of the culture dish that bears his name has been subject to a number of challenges over the years. Both those bacteriologists who claimed self-recognition for the invention, and those to whom it was attributed by their various advocates were all contemporaries of Petri. The evidence assembled here indicates that no single individual—including Petri—ought to be accorded credit for the inception of that shallow, circular, covered culture dish which, it transpires, is a simultaneous invention made by half a dozen bacteriologists active in the mid-1880s and ultimately owes its emergence to the prevailing bacteriological zeitgeist.

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