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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was born on October 24th, 1632. He is well known as the "Father of Microscopy"
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Hooke's birth was on July 18th 1635 at Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight, the son of a churchman.He wrote and published “Micrographia” And was known as the “English Father of Microscopy”
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Leeunhoek was apprenticed in a linen-draper's shop in 1648
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He returned to his home town to spend the rest of his life
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek looked at pond scum under a microscope and discovered small organism he called animalcules or little animals (Protists)
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In a letter, Leeuwenhoek described observations on lake water, including an excellent description of the green charophyte alga
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Leeuwenhoek Discovered bacteria
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Leeuwenhoek wrote to the Royal Society about his observations on the plaque between his own teeth
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Hooke died on March 3rd, 1703 at the age of 70. But not before he accomplished things such as:
- He observed pieces of cork from the bark of a cork tree under the microscope.
- His observations led him to coin the word “cell.”
- “Cell”- means little rooms in Latin
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He died at the age of 90, on August 26, 1723 and was buried four days later in the Oude Kerk (Delft).
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Matthias Schleiden was born on April 5th, 1804. He discovered that al plants are made of cells. He was a German Botanist. He also contributed to the creation of the cell theory.
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Theodor Schwann was born on December 7th, 1810. The german zoologist. He concluded that all animals were made of cells. He also contributed to the creation of the cell theory.
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Rudolph Virchow was born on October 18th, 1821. He was a german pathologist. He is known as the “Father of Pathology.” He discovered that all living cells come only from other living cells.
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Died at the age of 77
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