
Julius Richard Petri
✶May 31, 1852
†December 20, 1921
About their life
About their life…Memories
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?

✶May 31, 1852
†December 20, 1921
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?
Julius Richard Petri was a German microbiologist who is generally credited with inventing the device known as the Petri dish, which is named after him, while working as assistant to bacteriologist Robert Koch.
German microbiologist (1852–1921)
Biography from the article Julius Richard Petri on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.