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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was a famous scientist that in the 16th century that created the microscope. He also published a book called, "Micrographia" meaning tiny drawings. What is most famous in this book is his drawn pictures of what he saw under a microscope. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Leeuwenhoek was a cloth salesman and he created his own version of the microscope. What hes known most for is his observations on a drop of water. He said he saw little things move around. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias was a german biologist who mostly studied plants. In 1838 he suggested that all plants are made of cells. He later began to study animals and insects also. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor studied animal cells along with Matthias. theodor was a german biology professor. He mainly studied animal cells. in 1839 he also proposed a theory saying that animals are also made out of cells. -
Ignaz Philip Semmelweiss
A hungarian doctor named Ignaz, was a doctor in Austraila tryign to prevent women from dying. He noticed serveral women dying while pregnant. He studied this and found out it was because of doctors dirty hands that carry lots of germs. -
Karl Theodor Ernst won Siebold
This man was a scientist that studied microbe cells. He belived that microbes were living creatures. He also believed that organisms made up of many cells were built on single cell microbes. -
Rudolf Carl Virchow
Rudolf was a polish doctor that was influenced by Schleidens and Schwanns work. He is famous for saying "All cells arise from cells" stating that cells can reproduce new cells. This was an amzing discovery. He was also right. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence was a english nurse that published her idea on disease in 1860. She was one of the first people to recognize the value of cleanliness.Her efforts improved military hospitals and led to fewer soldiers dying. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis was a french chemist that began studying microbes in 1864. He studied how microbes make certain food and drinks spoil. But heat can also kill the microbes. His work is why today we heat milk up to kill the microbes to stop tuberculosis. -
Joseph Lister
Scottish surgeon Jospeh Lister, became interested in why people likely die after surgery. In 1867 he began to clean surgical intruments. He also required hand washing and wearing aprons. Instead of a 45% death rate it dropped to 15% from this. -
Robert Koch
robert, a german doctor studied anthraz. A disease that kills cattle. Robert developed a way to prove that specific microbes caused a particular disease. He injected serveral groups of mice with anthrax. Doing this he provided scientific evidence supporting the anthrax microbe. -
William Stweart Halsted
American surgeon william, took everything a step further. He wanted to prevent diseases. He was the first man to use rubber gloves druing surgery. this helped reduce the spread of diseases and infections by alot.
