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The invention of Microscope
Jansen and his father built the first compound microscope. -
Francesco Redi
Italian physician, naturalist
He was the first scientist overturn the theory of spontaneous generation by illustrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.
He conducted many experiments to prove his idea. He prepare some jars and put carrion inside. He left one part open and another part covered. He found that coverd jars didn't changer and other parts some maggots has growing up. After that the maggots turn into files. -
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch tradesman and scientist.
He has a title :"the Father of Microbiology", and the first microbiologist.
He made one of the most achievement contribution is to improvement the microscope and to establishment of microbiology. Meanwhile he was the first one to discovery and describe single-celled organisms. In addition,he is also the first scientist to observe record muscle fibers,sperm,and blood flow in the capillaries. -
Robert Hooke
He was English natural philosopher, architect and polymath. Robert Hooke believed the cells had served as containers in the living cork tree.Hooke was the first person to use the word "cell" to identify microscopic structures when he was describing cork.
He designed and manufactured vacuum pumps, microscopes and telescopes, and they used a microscope observations written as "microscopy" -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
He was an Italian catholic priest, biologist, and physiologist He made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions and animal reproduction. His investigations into the development of microscopic life in nutrient culture solutions paved the way. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He was a famous German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory. He stated that the different parts of the plant organism are composed of cells or derivatives of cells. Also,Schleiden was one of the first German biologists to accept Darwin’s theory of evolution. -
Theodor Schwann
He was a German Physiologist. He founded modern histology by defining the cell as the fundamental unit of animal structure.He illustrate that every mature animal is composed of embryonic cells.He discovered the digestive enzyme pepsin during his work. -
Rudolf Carl Virchow
He was a German doctor, anthropolpgist, pathologist, prehistorian , biologist. As konwn: "Father of Pathology, He created the modern concept of pathological processes by his application of the cell theory and to explain the effects of disease in the organs and tissues of the body. He emphasized that diseases arose is in the individual cells.
