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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Was a cloth salesman in Holland and an amateur scientist, Anton was one of the first people to observe and record microbes. Anton continued to observe microbes until the end of his life. -
Ignaz Philipp
gnaz noticed that in the 1840’s pregnant women often died of a disease called childhood fever. He also noticed that many pregnant women were examined by doctors who had just completed an autopsy. He believed that childbed fever must be infectious and could be spread from something found in dead bodies. Ignaz announced that he thinks doctors were carrying the disease from patient to patient. but he never. -
Louis Pasteu
Was a french chemist,began studying microbes in 1864, Louis noticed that certain microbes could cause food and drink to spoil. Pasteur observed a microbe that was infecting the silkworms and the leaves they ate when he recommended that the worms and their food be destroyed and the silk industry was saved because of that.
Rudolf Carl Virchow- He had been treating and studying ill patients for many years. He is famous for saying in the 1850’s ‘all cells arise from cells. And he was right. -
Robert Koch
He was a german doctor identified the microbe that causes anthrax an infectious disease that was killing cattle. Koch also created new ways to grow cultures of uncontaminated microbes. Koch also did all his work in the four-room apartment that he shared with his wife. -
Florence Nightingale
An english nurse, published her ideas on disease in 1860. She was also one of the first to recognize the value of cleanliness and recommended it as a part of good nursing. Her efforts improved sanitary practices in military hospitals and led to fewer soldiers dying from infections due to contaminated battle injuries. -
Joseph Lister
Was a scottish surgeon and he was concerned at the high death rates of patients following surgery. When Lister heard about Pausters germ theory of disease he come up with the idea of killing germs with chemicals. In 1867 he began using an antiseptic to clean surgical instruments. As a result the death rate of patients following surgery dropped to 15%.. -
William Halsted
Was a American surgeon. In 1890 , Halsted became one of the first surgeons to use rubber gloves during surgery. And that helped reduce the presence of even more microbes and improve patients health. -
Robert Hooke
Robert used his compound microscope to view cork and discover cells. Hooke is most remembered for including drawings of what he saw through a microscope.Today his most famous drawing from Micrographia is a drawing cork the same kind that is used in corkboards and bottle stoppers. -
Theodor Schwann
Schwann spent most of his time studying animals and was also interested in the digestive system. In 1839 one year after purposed his theory he suggested that animals and not just plants were made up of cells.. And now other scientists build on his ideas. -
Rudolf Carl Virchow-
Is a polish doctor. He had been studying and treating ill patients for many years. He is famous for saying in the 1850s “all cells arise from cells meaning that that cells reproduce to create new cells. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He was trained as a lawyer but he left to become a professor of botany. And her preferred to use a microscope to study plants. Based on his study he suggested in 1838 that all plants are made of cells. -
Karl Theodor Ernst Von Siebold
He suggested that microbes were also made up of cells. Karl also believed that organisms made up of many cells like animals were built out of single celled microbes. Siebold was wrong about this idea but he was right about living creatures made up of same material as animals and plants.
