TIL The first person to discover viruses was the plant biologist Martinus Beijerinck. Before that, scientists thought that they were a type of small bacteria.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martinus-W-Beijerinck
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Martinus W. Beijerinck | Biography, Virology, & Facts | Britannica
Martinus W. Beijerinck Dutch microbiologist and botanist who founded the discipline of virology with his discovery of viruses. Beijerinck was the first to recognize that viruses are reproducing entities that are different from other organisms.Encyclopedia Britannica
