Who was the first scientist in 1865 to suggest that microorganisms caused many diseases?

a. Thomas Young
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Henry Graham
d. Robert Koch


ANS: B
In 1865, Louis Pasteur advanced his "germ theory" of disease, which held that many diseases are caused by microorganisms.

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