A Ma­jor Force in Mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal His­tory by Elio — The chances are good that when you ask a se­nior mi­cro­bi­ol­o­gist how he or she got into this sci­ence, they will tell you that they were in­flu­enced as teenagers by read­ing "Mi­crobe Hunters." I was about 14 years old when I did, and I be­came trans­fixed by the glo­ri­ous and...