Time Line

  • Sacharias Jansen

    Sacharias Jansen

    He invented the first compound microscope.
  • Antoniei Can Leeuwenhoek

    Antoniei Can Leeuwenhoek

    He was the first to observe and describe single celled organisms. He referred to these as animalcules.
  • Rovert Hooke

    Rovert Hooke

    In London England he look at a thing piece of cork through a microscope.
  • Francesco Redi

    Francesco Redi

    He descovered that maggots formed from rotting meat.
  • John Needham

    John Needham

    Needham said that their was a life force that produced spontaneous generation.
  • Lazzaro Spallanzani

    Lazzaro Spallanzani

    He discovered that microbes move through the air and they can be killed through boiling.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown

    He discovered Brownian motion early work on pollinations and fertilisation including reconiseing the difference between gymnosperm and angiosperm.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    He reconized the importance of the cell nucleus. Was the first to formulate the atomic theory of chemistry.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    He discovered Schawann cell in the periphel nervous system, he dicovered pepsinm, the organic nature of yeast, and the invention of the term metabolism.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    He created the first vaccine for rabies
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow

    He was the first to reconize leukemia cells,