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Zacharias Janssen was the inventer of the first microscope, he was also charaged with counter fitting coins.
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In 1590 janssen invented the first microscope somtimes it is said that his father helped him with making it
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aressted for owning several devices he counterfeited coins with Normally, one would have been sentenced to death for this crime. but since the father of the Arnemuiden bailiff was found to be an accessory it turned out better for Janssen. Thanks to this, the process was delayed to such an extent that Janssen was able to flee yet another time
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finally the case was dismissed. Janssen returned to Middleburg in 1621
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Using his handcrafted microscopes, he was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms, which he originally referred to as animalcules. he was raised in Delft, Netherlands
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He was an important architect of his time unfortunately not many of his bildings survive today. he is also known for hookes law
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this is hookes law Hooke's law is a principle of physics that states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance is proportional to that distance. That is,
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he inspired the use of microscopes for scientific exploration with his book, Micrographia
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a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria He was also the first to see yeast plants and the teeming life in a drop of water.
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In 1680 he was elected a full member of the Royal Societ
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was asked to demonstrate circulation of the blood
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he was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
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Writes his first academic paper: "Præludia sponsaliorum plantarum" ("On the prelude to the wedding of plants").
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diring this time he lived abrod and published the first edition of Systema Naturae
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Publishes “Genera plantarum”, “Flora Lapponica”, “Critica botanica”, and “Hortus Cliffortianus”; establishes a medical practice in Stockholm.
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was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow
one of the first german biologists to accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution -
best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors
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he was a German physiologist.
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he was a German doctor, pathologist, anthropologist,prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, He is known for his advancement of public health
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the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance
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wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist he is beast known for conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection the paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858
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He recognized the importance of the cell nucleus, discovered in 1831 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown
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in 1837 Schwann isolated an enzyme, apparently essential to digestion, that Schwann named pepsin
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he wrote Contributions to Phytogenesis
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In the early 1840s, Schwann went beyond others who had noted simply the multiplication of yeast during alcoholic fermentation, as Schwann assigned the yeast the role of primary causal factor, and then went further and claimed it was alive
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Between 1840 and 1843, Wallace did land surveying work in the countryside of the west of England and Wales
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He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858
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Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species
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was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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became professor of botany at the University of Dorpat in 1863
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In 1869, Virchow founded the Society for Anthropology
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In 1881, Wallace was elected as the first president of the newly formed Land Nationalisation Society
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he was awarded the Copley Medal
