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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton was a amateur scientist who knew how to make very simple microscopes. They could magnify objects over 200 times. He was one of the first people to observe and record microbes, and did it till the end of his life. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke improved science by using observations and drawings on what he sees to make "good science". He used these drawings and observations later in his life to make a book called Micrographia. Robert also developed his own version of the compound microscope. -
Karl Theodor von Siebold
Karl Theodor Ernst Von Siebold said that microbes were also made up of cells. He was wrong about this idea, but was correct when stating that microbes were living creatures and are made up of the same material as animals and plants. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Mattias Jokob Schleiden enjoyed using a microscope for looking at to study plants. He also claimed that all plants are made of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann spent his time studying animals. He claimed that animals area also made up of cells. Schleiden and Schwann developed the cell theory: that all living organisms are made up of cells. -
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss concluded that childbed fever must be infectious and could be spread from something found in the dead bodies. He also beileved that doctors were carrying the diseases from patient to patient. -
Florence NIghtingale
Florence was on of the first nurses to recognize the value of cleanliness and recommended it a part of good nursing. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur a french chemist, began studying microbes in 1864. He was working on an important business in France. Pasteur discovered that different microbes cause different kinds of spoiling, but heat can kill many of these microbes. -
Joseph Lister
After being concerned of the high death rates of patients after surgery Joseph came up with the idea of killing germs with chemicals. As a result, the death rate dropped 15%. -
Robert Koch
Robert was a german doctor,he identified the microbe that casued anthrax, an infectious disease that was killing cattle. -
William Stewart Halsted
William tried to prevent the germs in the first place. This helped reduce the presence of even more microbes and reduce the presence of even more microbes and improve patient health.
