Julius Richard Petri (1852-1921), a German bacteriologist and assistant to Koch. Working in the Berlin Imperial Health Office laboratories, Petri utilized his celebrated glass-plate, two-part lidded "Petri dish," specifically designed for the use of agar-agar in the culture, identification, and study of micro-organisms. Petri had qualified in 1876 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians, continuing with active military duties to 1882. He described his innovation in "Eine kleine Modification des Koch'schen Plattenverfahrens" (A small modification of Koch's plate-method), published in Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde 1 (1887): 279.
Created 3 February 2023