Download

Microscopes timeline

By J. Waa
  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen was born in 1580 and died in 1638. He was famous for creating the microscope.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke was born July 18 1635 in Isle of Wight in England. He died on march 3 1703 in London, England. He was famous for his law of elasticity, which states that the stretching of a solid body (e.g., metal, wood) is proportional to the force applied to it.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born on 24 October 1632 and died on 26 August 1723. He was famous for discovering microbial life.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann was born on 7 December 1810 and died on 11 January 1882. He was famous for discovering the nuclei of plants.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden was born on April 5, 1804 and died on June 23, 1881. He was famous for the Contributions to Phytogenesis.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow was born on 13 October 1821 and died on 5 September 1902. He was famous for bringing more science to medicine