History of Biology

  • Aug 2, 1580

    Mission 1

    Mission 1
    Zacharias Janssen,
    Zacharias Jannsen was born during the year 1580, and died during the year 1638. In between those years he acomplished many things like, Dutch spectacle-maker. He assisted in inventing the original microscope, and the telescope.
  • Mission 3

    Mission 3
    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    was born on October 24th, 1632, he died on the date August 26, 1723. He was a dutch tradesman and scientist. He was known as "The Father of Microbiology."
  • Mission 2

    Mission 2
    Robert Hooke was born on the day July 28th 1635, he died on the date March 3rd 1703. He was an english natural philosopher. he was also an architect and a polymath.
  • Mission 5

    Carl Linnaeus Born May 23, 1707. Died January 10, 1778.
    Carl Linnaeus a Swedish botanist
  • Schlieden (Mission 4)

    Born April 5, 1804. Died June 23, 1881. Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist
  • Shwann (Mission 4)

    Born December 7, 1810. Died January 11, 1882 Theodor Schwann was a German physiologist.
  • Virchow (Mission 4)

    Born October 13, 1821. Died September 15, 1902 in Germany. Rudolf Virchow was a German Doctor he also had many other hobbies like anthropoligist, patholigist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, politician
  • Mission 7

    Alfred Russel Wallace, Born January 8, 1823. Died November 7, 1913. During his lifetime he was a british naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
  • Mission 6

    Charles Darwin, Born February 12, 1809. Died April 19, 1882. He was an english naturalist and geologist