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Francesco Redi Experiment
He was born at 1626 and he died at 1697. In 1668, Redi started the idea of spontaneous generation went like a boom in the humanity, he successfully demonstrated that the maggots came from fly eggs and helped to deny the spontaneous generation. -
John Needham
He was born at 1713 and he died at 1781. In 1745, John Needham boiled broth in order to destroy pre-existing organisms and placed them in a poorly sealed container, as according to his theory air was needed for this to occur properly. -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
He born in 1729 and he died in 1799. In 1765, which was the first systematic rebuttal of the theory of the spontaneous generation, he showed that it is not an inherent feature of matter, and that it can be destroyed by an hour of boiling. -
Louis Pasteur
He was born in 1822 and he died at 1895. He designed a procedure to test whether sterile nutrient broth could spontaneously generate microbial life. He setted up two experiments, in both he added nutrient broth to flasks killing any microbes that were there.