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Francesco Redi
Born : February 18, 1626
Died : March 1, 1697 (aged 71) He was the first person to prove that spontaneous generation did not cause the growth of maggots in rotting meat, but they appeared from eggs deposited by flies. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek “the Father of Microbiology”
Born: October 24, 1632
Died: August 26, 1723 (aged 90) “the Father of Microbiology”
One of the first microscopists in history.
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Robert Hooke
Birth: July 18, 1635 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England.
Death: March 3 London, England
Hooke's Law: relating the force pulling back on a spring is inversely proportional to the distance pulled from rest.
Constucted Robert Boyle's Air Pump. He is Well known for construction of the Anemometer, wheel Barometer, and the Hydrometer -
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Carl von Linnaeus
Born: May 23, 1707
Died: January 10, 1778 (aged 70) He is most famous for making Binomial NomenClatures for plants and animals. -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Born: January 10, 1729
Died: February 12, 1799 Showed that boiling water is a better sterilizing agent than hot air, and that some microorganisms can live for days in a vacuum.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet
Born: 1 August 1744
Died:18 December 1829 (aged 85) His theory of heredity has been refuted by modern genetics and evolutionary theory.
Widely regarded as one of the most influential naturalists and an important forerunner of evolution. -
Matthais Schleiden
Born: April 5 1804
Died: June 23 1881 (aged 77) Proposed that all plants are composed of cells
Along with Theodor Schwann he formulated the cell theory of life.
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Charles Darwin
BIRTH DATE: February 12, 1809 DEATH DATE: April 19, 1882 EDUCATION: University of Edinburgh, Cambridge Charles Darwin is Well known for his work as a naturalist, developing a theory of evolution to explain biological change. -
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Theodor Schwann
Born : December 11, 1810
Died : January 11 1882 (aged 71) A German physiologist who is widely credited as the founder of modern histology.
Played a role in the development of cell theory
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Rudolf Virchow
BIRTH DATE: October 13, 1821
DEATH DATE: September 05, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH: Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia, Poland
PLACE OF DEATH: Berlin, Germany A German pathologist/ Statesman who was credited for his advancements in Public health, more or less with his Cell Theory -
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PLACE OF BIRTH: Heinzendorf, Austria
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Gregor Mendel
EDUCATION: University of Vienna An Austrian Monk who Was well known for his Discovery of heredity. he experimented in his gardens. -
Louis Pasteur
BIRTH DATE: December 27, 1822 DEATH DATE: September 28, 1895 PLACE OF BIRTH: Dole, France PLACE OF DEATH: Marnes-la-Coquette, France Louis came up with the food preperation process known as Pasteurization. He also developed a Vaccination for Rabies & Anthrax -
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Alexander Fleming
BIRTH DATE: August 06, 1881
DEATH DATE: March 11, 1955 Well known his very own Discovery of Pennicillin -
Robert Koch
Prussian physician Robert Koch is best known for isolating the bacterium which causes tuberculosis, the cause of numerous deaths in the mid-19th century. -
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
BIRTH DATE: June 08, 1916 DEATH DATE: July 28, 2004 PLACE OF BIRTH: Northampton, England PLACE OF DEATH: San Diego, California Was awarded in 1962, with other scientists, the noble prize for physiology or Medicine. His studies were on the Structure of DNA -
James D. Watson
Born: April 6, 1928 (age 84) American geneticist and biophysicist.
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Lynn Margulis
Born: March 5, 1938
Died: November 22, 2011 (aged 73) American Biologist.
Her serial endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell development overturned the modern concept of how life originated on earth. -
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Born: September 25, 1866
Died: December 4, 1945 (aged 79) American zoologist and geneticist.
Demonstrated that genes are connected in a series on chromosomes, which carry hereditary traits, therefore kickstarting the modern field of Generics.
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Aristotle - Ἀριστοτέλης - Aristotélēs 384 - 322 b.c.
Born in Greece,
Lived from 384 BC to 322 BC,
Wrote on many subjects including poetry, music, theater, logic, metaphysics, rhetoric, ethics and politics.
Was taught by Plato at around the age of eighteen. He moved too Athens to further his education and stayed for twenty years.
