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Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921) was a German microbiologist who in 1887 at Berlin University invented the container known as the Petri dish, that was a modification of bacteriologist Robert Koch's 1881 culture plate.
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German Origin: latinized patronymic from Peter.
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