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Sep 20, 1543
Andreas Vesalius (31st December 1514 - 15th October 1564)
showed the world the importance of human dissection in anatomy -
Zacharias Janssen (1580 - 1638)
invented the first microscope from optical lenses -
Robert Hooke (18th July 1635 - 3rd March 1703)
Invented the anchor escapement and balance string, allowing clocks to be more accurate -
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek (24th October 1632 - 30th August 1723)
creates interesting discriptions explaning various strange plants and animals including algea and protists -
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
created a theory describing nature and all that is in it better than any other theory and has made sense of the things in nature that were confusing -
Theodore Schwann (1810-1882)
Discovered that yeast were tiny organisms similar to plants, that fermentation is biological and discovered pepsin, a digestive enzyme -
Ernst Rusksa (25th December 1906 - May 25 1988)
built the first electron microscope
