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The first actual identification of viruses as a distinct pathogenic agent was by Louis Pasteur, but he did not isolate or classify them. In 1892 Dimitri Ivanovsky was able to separate the toxic agent of the tobacco mosaic virus. In 1898 Martinus Beijerinck determined the virus to be a reproductive particle much smaller than a bacteria.

In 1935, Wendell M. Stanley achieved the crystallization of the tobacco mosaic virus, showing that it remained potent despite crystallization, and allowing imaging of a virus for the first time (in 1939). He shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946.

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