Petri dish
Placa de Petri
- Date
- 1887 · confidence high
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Credited to
- Julius Richard Petri (Robert Koch's laboratory)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Working in Koch's laboratory, Petri simplified the method of culturing bacteria on glass plates, shaping the loose-lidded circular dish that today is the most common instrument in biology laboratories.
What it led to
- Standardisation of microbiological culture
- Discovery of penicillin in a Petri-dish culture (Fleming, 1928)