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Franceesco Redi
Francesco Redi (February 18, 1626 – March 1, 1697)[1] was an Italian physician, naturalist, and poet. He was the first scientist to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies. He is major contribution was that he disproved the theory of Sponatneous -
Jean-Baptiste van Helmont
Jan Baptist van Helmont was an early modern period Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry.The first to recognize gases other than air, he coined the word gas and discovered that the wild spirits (carbon dioxide) produced by burning charcoal and by fermenting grape juice were the same. For applying chemical principles to digestion and nutrition. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur - December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist who is well known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. Louis Pasteur is called the father of the microbiolgy.
