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Robert Hooke
Robert Hook was a scientist that was belived, good science results come from makeing great observations. Robert Hook made his own compound microscope. Then Hook took dead plat tissue and put it under his microscope. He described the shapes he saw rooms because they are like boxes. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van leeuwenhoek was a great scientist. he created his own microscope that allowed him to zoom in on an object over 200x!
The way Anton described the things he saw in water in his own words were ''wrenched beasties''. Anton was the firs to see microscopic life. -
Karl Theodor ernst von Siebold
Karl Theodor ernst von Siebold belived that microbs are also made of cells. Karl Theodor ernst von Siebold also thaught that organisms that were made of cells were built with single celled microbes. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias was a biologist and a lawyer.He quit the law to become a bioligy teacher. He used a microscope to view plants and realized all plants are made of cell. -
Theodor Schwann
Spent a lot of his time studying animals.Studied mostly the digestive system of the animals. He discovered that animals were made of cells not just plants. He was givin credit for the cell theory along with shleiden. -
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss was a doctor that realized that many women were dieing at birth by childbed fever.Ignaz figured out that childbed fever was infectiouse and that there was some way it was spreading. Then Ignaz decided to wash his hands and 1% out of12% of his patiants died. -
Rudolf Carl Virchow
Rudolf Carl Virchow was polish doctor that has been helping and studying his sick patients for a a lot of years. He was right about all cells make new cells. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was an English nurese that studied Desease and wrote a book about all the diseases she studied. She realized what cleaning did and started to do it. she caused fewer solders to die by sanitarying everything. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur was a french chemist and studied microbes. Louis figured out that some microbes cause some items to spoil. He also found out that heat can kill some of them. -
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was a scottish surgeon and he studied the high death rates of patients in surgury, so he decided to clean his tools after pastures germ theory of disease. Joseph had an idea to clean and kill the germs with chemicals. After doing this Joseph droped the death rate to 15%. -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch was a German Doctor who studied infectiouse diseases. He infected two heathy mice with the blood of a heath cow and infected another two mice with a infected cows blood.Robert proved that he could contain anthorax. -
William Halsted
William Halsted was an American surgan that went further with josephs idea. he had an ideat to stop the infectious diseases from even being there. William was the first scientist to use rubber gloves in surgury.This reduced the death in surgury even more.
