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Richard Pfeiffer was a scientist working under Robert Koch who first discovered a bacterium called Bacillus influenzae, which seemed at first like it might be the pathogen causing the 1918 influenza epidemic. Pfeiffer’s research inspired much of the research that followed during the pandemic, and B. influenzae was even nicknamed “Pfeiffer’s bacillus” by some. Though ultimately Pfeiffer’s B. influenzae was not the main pathogen causing the 1918 influenza epidemic, his research was still a major breakthrough.
Richard Pfeiffer Quotes in The Great Influenza
The The Great Influenza quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Pfeiffer or refer to Richard Pfeiffer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Lewis knew full well that little of what he was doing was good science. It was all, or nearly all, based on informed guesswork. He only worked harder.
As he worked, the society about him teetered on the edge of collapse.
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Chapter 35
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The greatest questions remained the simplest ones: What caused influenza? What was the pathogen? Was Pfeiffer right when he identified a cause and named it Bacillus influenzae? And if he was not right, then what did cause it? What was the killer?
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Richard Pfeiffer Quotes in The Great Influenza
The The Great Influenza quotes below are all either spoken by Richard Pfeiffer or refer to Richard Pfeiffer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 23
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Lewis knew full well that little of what he was doing was good science. It was all, or nearly all, based on informed guesswork. He only worked harder.
As he worked, the society about him teetered on the edge of collapse.
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Chapter 35
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The greatest questions remained the simplest ones: What caused influenza? What was the pathogen? Was Pfeiffer right when he identified a cause and named it Bacillus influenzae? And if he was not right, then what did cause it? What was the killer?
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