Talk:Martinus Beijerinck
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The external link to the detailed biography is dead. In fact, the whole usmusa.org website is gone!
[edit] nobel Prize
Does anybody know a reason why this man never got a nobel prize? He was the first to discover and identify viruses, after all...Sikkema 13:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dutch Pronuncitation
Does anyone know how 'Beijerinck' is commonly pronounced. I am not looking for the correct Dutch pronunciation per se, but how it is said in English among those who have a reason to refer to the man who is credited with discovering viruses.
Thanks
= Depends what accent you're used to. For UK pronunciation, combine "buyer" and "ink".
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He never got a nobel prize cause everyone knew that he and his budy Adolf Mayer where scientific frauds. His claim that virus disease can be passed on for as long as one likes was a outright lie. Many researchers published papers showing that viruses behaved as finite toxins, not replicating organisms, and that virus diseases got weaker very quickly as you passed them along from plant to plant and where reduced to harmless levels in just a few transfers. Also even Beijernick admited in his own paper that TMV behaved in a dose dependent maner and that this was not consistent with replication. Beijernick and Mayer put forth these fraudulent claims to cover up the fact that plant virological disorders were caused by pesticides. TMV is endogenous plant RNA that controls hormone levels in healthy plants. When a plant is over exposed to certain pesticides TMV is over produced by the cells of the plant and this results in mosaic disease.
