By Carl R. Woese (auth.), Martin Dworkin Professor Dr., Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt (eds.)
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One can in principle have a biologically valid, unified concept of “bacteria,” but a comparable unifying concept of the artificial grouping “microorganisms” is impossible. The semantic thimblerig involved in this name change was one of the factors that helped to push the problem of a “concept of a bacterium” off the table. From a basic scientific perspective, bacteriology in 1992 was worse off than it had been in 1962. But by 1992, bacteriology had a powerful remedy for the situation. What Is Bacteriology?
My assertion that Kluyver represented (or came to represent) the biochemical dissection of bacteria rather than an organismal comprehension thereof finds indirect support in van Niel’s historical account of the Delft School, which details Kluyver’s contributions to biochemistry while failing once to mention Kluyver’s (and his own) concerns with developing a natural bacterial classification (van Niel, 1949). The Gordian Knot of Bacterial Classification The Linnean system had proven extremely useful in structuring our knowledge of zoology and botany, making both into respectable organismal sciences even before Darwin’s time.
Greenwood Bio-Diagnostics Laboratories Torrance, CA 90503 USA Walter P. R. R. A. Hansen Microbial Physiology (MICFYS) Groningen University Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL-9700 AB Groningen The Netherlands Jeremy Hardie Department of Oral Microbiology School of Medicine & Dentistry London E1 2AD UK xxxv xxxvi Contributors Timothy Harrah Bioengineering Center Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 USA Christian Hertel Institute of Food Technology Universität Hohenheim D-70599 Stuttgart Germany Anton Hartmann GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health Institute of Soil Ecology Rhizosphere Biology Division D-85764 Neuherberg/Muenchen Germany Robert B.