Germ timeline

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek skill was mostly makeing microscopes. his microscop were able to magnify objects over 200times.Anton van Leeuwenhoek used his microscpe for observing many things.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    the late 17th century was a period of a great scientific discovery.the microscope robert used it alot to look at micros. he later made a book in 1665 that shows his discoveries. he died in 1703.
  • Matthias Jakob Schleiden

    Matthias Jakob Schleiden
    Matthias Jakob Schleiden was originaly trained as a lawer but he left that behind and became a professor of botany.
  • Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold

    Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
    suggested that microbes were also made up up of cells. infact he beleived that oragisms were made up of many cells and he beleived thatanimals were built out of singled celled microbes.Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold died in 1885.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Theodor Schwann is a german biology professor who spent most of his time studieing animals at the time. he beleived that the cell theroy is correct that all living organisms are made up of cells. Theodor Schwann died in 1885.
  • Ignaz philipp semmelweiss

    Ignaz philipp semmelweiss
    Ignaz philipp semmelweiss was developing is own ideas of cells like all the other scientists were doing.Ignaz philipp semmelweiss tried to prevent a young woemen from dying from a disese called the chiled bed fever.
  • Florence nightinangle

    Florence nightinangle
    Florence nightinangle is an english nurse that published her ideas on disease in 1860. at the time that idea was important beacuse cleanliness was needed.
  • Rudolf Carl Virchow

    Rudolf Carl Virchow
    Rudolf Carl Virchow is a polish doctor. he has been treating and studieng sick patients for many years and he is famous for saying all cells arise from cells meaning that cells reproduce to creat new cells. he said that in the 1850s. Rudolf Carl Virchow was right about that. he also researched that organisms begin as a single cell.Rudolf Carl Virchow died in 1902.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur was a french chemist he began studying microbs in 1864. he was working on a farely important buissness in france. he beleived that micros can cause food and drinks to spoil. so if it spoild and you drink it youll get sick. but he found a way to stop it from spoiling. he said you have heat it to 71 degreese for 15 seconds to kill the microbes.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    Joseph Lister had been conserned at the high death rates of patients following in sergery. the surgery was succesfull but about 46% of the people died afterward due to infectio. he came to the idea to kill jerms and bacateria on the utensls they r useing.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    the role of microbes in causeing infectious diseases.Robert Koch is a german doctor that identifyed diseasess and oathe infecious things. Robert Koch died in 1910
  • william Stewart halstedd

    william Stewart halstedd
    william Stewart halstedd is an american sergeon he took the ideast to one step further. instead of just trying to kill microbe once they were there why not try to prevent them from being spreadin the first place. so he went on to do that he became one of the first sugeons to wear ruber gloves during surgery so he would disinfect them and work on the pationt that reduced some of the infection.