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Timeline Project Autumn

  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    He did spontaneous generation. he also received education about biology and medication from his father while he was young.
  • Antoni van leeuwenhoek

    Antoni van leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek discovered "protozoa" which is the single celled organisms and he called them "animalcules". He also improved the microscope and laid foundation for microbiology.
  • Carolus Linnaeus

    Carolus Linnaeus

    He is known for identifying, classifying and ranking organisms and it is still used widely today. He is often called the father of taxonomy.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    He discovered vaccination. The name vaccination came from the latin word for cow.
  • John snow

    John snow

    considered one of the fathers of of modern epidemiology. mostly because of the reason that in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.
  • Florence nightingale

    Florence nightingale

    she discovered the polar area chart. she helped tons of soldiers during the crimean war.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur developed a vaccination for anthrax and rabies. He also discovered pasteurization
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    His discovery of the antiseptic process dramatically decreased deaths from childbirth and surgery and changed ways medical industry looked at sanitation and hygiene. it was highly important at that time period .
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    Koch discovered "Koch's postulates" to establish a causative relationship between microbes and diseases. He also discovered micro-bacterium. The bacterium is also known as "Koch's bacillus".
  • Hans ernst august buchner

    Hans ernst august buchner

    He won the Nobel prize in chemistry. he was also a german bacteriologist