Biology Timeline

By dowdy11
  • Sep 29, 1500

    Spontaneous Generation

    When spontaneous generation really was in consideration.

  • First Microscope

    The Janssen's made the first microscope

  • Hooke

    First person to look at a cell through a microscope

  • Redi

    The start of Redi's Spontaneous Generation experiment; Leaving raw meat out to see if it made maggots "spontaneously."

  • Leeuwenhoek

    Reinvented the first ever microscope to make it better.

  • Spallanzani

    Spallanzani was the second to research about SG. He believed that microbes in the air could be killed by boiling it.

  • Schleiden

    Recognized the importances of cell nucleus. Co founder of Cell Theory.

  • Schwann

    Had a dinner with Schleiden to talk about nuclei of plants and animal cells. Co founder of Cell Theory.

  • Schleiden and Schwann

    made Cell Theory together

  • Cell Theory

    Credit for creating Cell Theory goes to Schwann, Schleiden and Virchow.

  • Pasteur

    Pasteur had the most accurate experiment to disprove Spontaneous Generation. He boiled broth in a S shaped flask to keep the microorganisms away from the broth, but the air could still flow to the broth.

  • First Organelle

    discovered by Italian physician Camillo Golgi during an investigation of the nervous system.

  • Electron Microscope

    German Physicist Ernst Ruska and Gernan Engineer Max Knoll constructed the first prototype of the Electron Microscope