If Borders is selected in the draft, she won't be the first woman selected there, either. The Chicago White Sox selected Karey Schueler - daughter of Chisox general manager Ron - with their 43rd pick (of 49 in all) in the 1993 draft. Nor will Borders even be the first woman to play professional baseball.
The criteria for establishing a causative link between a particular microorganism and a particular disease were first proposed by Jacob Henle. true Viruses and bacteria were first cultured in the laboratory at about the same time.
Many people will remember the heated contest over who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, and the patenting of the consequent blood tests, which took place between Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris and Dr. Anthony Gallo at the National Cancer Institute in Washington.