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Anton was born. There were reports that lake Berkel turned an unusual green color. He took a sample and looked at it under a microscope. He found tiny organisms and became the first man to see single-celled bacteria and protozoa in 1677. He was the first scientist to give a description of red blood cells in 1675
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Robert Hooke was born. In 1665 he looked at a sliver of cork and saw that it was made of cells. He wrote the first book that described observations made through a microscope called "Micrographia".
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Dissected insects to prove the flaws of spontaneous generation and laid the base for the knowledge on development.
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Felice Fontana was born. In 1775, he published a treaty about carbon dioxide.
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Robert Brown was born. He discovered the cell nucleus and that cytoplasm flows in eukaryotic cells.
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Henri Dutrochet was born. He was credited as being the first to discover plant cells and the discovery of the process osmosis.
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Jan was born. In 1837, he was known for his discovery of Purkinje cells found in the cerebellum. He also discovered Purkinje Fibers in 1839.
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Felix Dujarin was born. He disproved the concept that single-celled organisms are complete organisms similar to animals.
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Matthias Schleiden was born. He stated that all plants are made of cells in 1838.
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Rudolf Virchow was born. He was the first to reconized leukemia cells. He published a book in 1858 that rejects the concept of spontanious generation.
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Camillo Golgi was born. He used a method he called the black reaction that stained cells in nervous tissue with silver nitrate; therefore, he was able to study nervous cells and their functions for the first time. He also has a really cool mustache.
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Month and day incorrect but year is correct. Carl Benda was born. He named the mitochondria in 1898.
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Lynn Margulis was born. She proposed that organelles were once free-living organisms in 1970.
