It was named after Joseph Lister who promoted the idea of sterile surgery by sterilizing instruments.

Joseph Lister was experimenting with Penicillum in 1871 for his aseptic surgery.

The term vitamin was derived from " vitamine ," a compound word coined in 1912 by the Polish biochemist Kazimierz Funk when working at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

He was awarded the Lister Medal in 1945 for his contributions to surgical science.

The corresponding Lister Oration, given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England later that year, was titled " Use of Micro-organisms for Therapeutic Purposes ".

While preparing for The Story of Louis Pasteur, Muni states that " I read most everything that was in the library, and everything I could lay my hands on that had to do with Pasteur, with Lister, or with his contemporaries.

Lister was able to quickly reduce infection rates, a reduction that was further helped by his subsequent introduction of the techniques of Robert Koch ( such as the Steam Steriliser, which proved more successful than the carbolic acid spray that Lister had been using previously ) to sterilize equipment, have rigorous hand washing and a later implementation of rubber gloves.

The work was groundbreaking and laid the foundations for a rapid advance in infection control that saw modern aseptic operating theatres widely used within 50 years ( Lister himself went on to make further strides in antisepsis and asepsis throughout his lifetime ).

In an evidently ironic commentary on the word, Lister has the philosopher summarize his thoughts with, " I concluded that the incidence of logodaedaly was purely adventitious.

:" The peace-reluctant slayer of the reindeer of the Lister of the peak was put in a fix there, on the dire, grim hat of the giantess.

Sir Edward Lister was Leader of the Council from 1992 to 2011.

It was replaced by a Lister diesel engine, and then a Ruston and Hornsby engine.

Her uncle ( Martin Lister ) was a prominent naturalist.

The estate was purchased from the trustees of Ernest Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury, in 1887, by S. Cunliffe Lister, Esq.

In addition to managing the Middleton Collieries, in the 1820s John Blenkinsop was the consulting engineer for Sir John Lister Kaye of Denby Grange, owner of Caphouse Colliery.

At a chance meeting in Georgiana, Hank Williams met future U. S. Representative J. Lister Hill while he was campaigning across Alabama.

The first president chosen for the new university was Francis Lister Hawks, an Episcopalian priest and prominent citizen of New Orleans at the time.

It was also the feature debuts of Danny Trejo and Tommy " Tiny " Lister, who both proceeded to successful careers as " tough guy " character actors.

Lister og Mandal amt was created on 1 January 1662 and it consisted of the two old lens of Lister ( now Lista ) and Mandal.

Lister Cars, makers of Lister Storm, Le Mans racing cars, are based in the town, and in nearby Dorking, while P1 International was founded here in 2000 by ex-Formula One World Champion Damon Hill.

She worked at the Lister Institute for over fifty years, and isolated vitamin C in various other fruits and vegetables.

Three million years later, when Lister was brought out of stasis, Rimmer was chosen by Holly to be reactivated as a hologram in order to keep Lister company and prevent him from being driven insane with loneliness.

Due to a series of events, Lister, Rimmer, Kryten, the Cat & Kristine Kochanski are sentenced to two years in the ship's brig for misuse of confidential information.

Initially Grenier had planned to run for governor in 1966, and Martin was poised to oppose John Sparkman, as he had four years earlier against Sparkman's colleague, J. Lister Hill.

In Red Dwarf: " Stasis Leak ", when Lister travels back in time to meet with Kochanski to marry her, he finds out from his future self from 5 years later that he is going to pass through a wormhole and end up in a parallel universe version of Earth in 1985 but after 8 whole series, this has never happened ( although similar events happen in " Backwards ").

" However, other episodes imply Lister is from the 21st century or 22nd century, and most of the series is set about 3 million years later.

He then drove the Lister Storm for 3 years, reaching 3rd overall at Daytona in 1997 before gearbox problems dropped them to 19th.

He is a descendant of Dave Lister's pet cat whose species evolved into a humanoid form over 3, 000, 000 years while Dave Lister was in suspended animation.

His species expanded and evolved into a humanoid form over 3, 000, 000 years while sealed in the cargo hold of Red Dwarf while Dave Lister was in suspended animation.

Holly, the ship's computer, piloted the ship away from Earth and kept Lister in stasis for 3 million years, at which point the radiation levels had again returned to normal and Lister was released.

Holly, the ship's computer, kept Lister in stasis for three million years until the radiation levels returned to normal.

* In the episode " Future Echoes " in the first series of the show, a vision of Lister is seen with him as a very old man of 171 years old with a mechanical prosthetic hand.

Lister is told by Cassandra that he will live to 181 years old and will die whilst trying to take a bra off with his teeth.

Though Lister believed this was an incredibly sexy way to go, the others quickly pointed out that at 181 years old it may be his own bra, and that the teeth may not be in his mouth at the time ( It should be noted that Cassandra was aware that Lister would kill her, and hence may not have been entirely honest about his fate ).

The others find him thirty-six years later ( after believing Lister was missing for a fortnight due to a time dilation ).

Later, after Lister dies of a heart attack in a confrontation with a polymorph, his body is taken to the alternative universe where time runs backwards and is told that he will be rescued in thirty-six years time.

After releasing Dave Lister from stasis in The End, Holly told him that the crew have been wiped out by a radiation leak and that he had spent three million years in stasis.

He often plays practical jokes on the crew, such as fooling Lister into thinking that NORWEB Federation space fighters were after him and wanted £ 180 billion in arrears for leaving his bathroom light on three million years ago, as well as wanting to arrest him for " Crimes against Humanity " as he had left some German sausages alone in his apartment for three million years and they now covered 7 / 8 of the Earth's surface.

In Red Dwarf: Back to Earth it is revealed that sometime after the events of Only The Good ... Holly is offline due to water damage, later elaborated as being the result of Lister leaving a bath running in the officers ' quarters for nine years and the water subsequently flooding the ship.

In a possible future seen in the episode " Stasis Leak ", Lister finds out that his future self from five years hence had gone back in time and married Kochanski three weeks before the accident, implying that the couple will somehow make it back to the Solar System within five years time.

Some other remarkable towers are the VW-Tower in the city centre and the old towers of the former mid-age defence belt: Döhrener Tower, Lister Tower and the Horse Tower.

He is originally very self-centred, acting purely without concern when his old mentor the " Cat Priest " dies, giving Kryten an earring which he Cat hates on the day before his automatic self-destruct and choosing to finish his lunch rather than carry Lister to the medical bay when he collapses.

" It is debatable whether this is a genuine saying, due to the Cat only learning of dogs when Lister shows the Cat a picture of his father ; more likely the Cat was calling it an old saying merely for effect.

Rimmer and the Cat are shocked to find a beautiful farm amidst the garbage, tended by an old Lister.

The song was also covered by the Cathedral Quartet and Hovie Lister and the Statesmen as a Southern Gospel song with slightly modified lyrics, using the house as an analogy for an old body about to die and the soul about to go to heaven, usually tying the song in with " When the Saints Go Marching In.

Lister then built a hunting lodge on the site of the old farm in the 1780s.