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Robert Hooke
He wrote a book of his observations and drawings and called it Micrographia it was 1st published in 1655. He also devlope dhis own version of the compound microscope which was the best of its time. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van leeuwenhoek became intrested in studying the microscope after he read the micrographia by Robert Hooke. As a result he built microscopes that were able to magnify over 200 times. In 1673 he explained what he saw when examining a drop of water he decribed them as "wretched beasts" -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden was first trained as a lawyer, so after he left that he became a proffesor of botany. He then discovered in 1838 that all plants have cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Schwann discovered that not just plants had cells but also animals had cells also. Schleiden and Schwann are credited with devloping the cell theory. -
Ignaz Phillip Semmelweiss
IN the 1840s many women were dying of childbed fever. Semmelweiss discovered that washing his hands in between patients reduced the amount of deaths from 12% to 1%. He tried to get others to do the same but since he did not kno how to explain his findings no one believed him. -
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Siebold suggested the idea that microbes were made of cells and he believed that oraganisms that were made of many cells started off from single celled microbes. Even though he was wrong he was correct that microbes living and are made of the same material as plant and animal cells. -
Rudolf Carl Virchow
In the 1850s he said "all cells arise from cells".He was corect in saying so as cells do reproduce to create new cells. -
Florence Nightingale
She was a english nurse that noticed cleanliness was important and that it saved many lives. -
Louis Pasteur
in 1864 pastuer saw that certain microbes could cause food and drinks to spoil. He as learned that heat can kill many of these microbes. -
Joseph Lister
Lister noticed that after a successful surgery 45% of patients died soon after. In 1867 he began using antiseptic to clean tools and he also sprayed the air, washed his hands and had clean aprons. this resulted in 15% fewer deaths. -
Robert Koch
In 1876 he discovered the microbe responsible for causing the death of cattle the disease was called anthrax. He also learned the microbes that caused tuberculosis and cholera. -
William Stewart Halsted
Halsted became one of the first to wear gloves during surgery which were sterilized with heat and chemicals. This led to improved patient health.
