Biology H Timeline

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  • 1580

    Janssen

    Janssen
  • Period: 1580 to

    Zacharias Janssen

    Known for inventing the first microscope

  • Redi

    Redi
  • Period: to

    Francesco Redi

    Parasitology. Examined parasites and flies as part of the first controlled science experiments

  • Leeuwenhooek

    Leeuwenhooek
  • Period: to

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Microbiology. Modified and improved microscopes and discovered cells, which he called "animalcules"

  • Hooke

    Hooke
  • Period: to

    Robert Hooke

    Published "Micrographia", described the structure of different species, coined the word "cell",

  • Brown

    Brown
  • Period: to

    Robert Brown

    Described the nuclei of a cell. Defined new families of plants in Australia.

  • Schleiden

    Schleiden
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    Matthias Schleiden

    Co-founder of the cell theory along with Schwann and Virchow. Contributed to botanical studies of vegetable tissues.

  • Schwann

    Schwann
  • Period: to

    Theodor Schwann

    Another botanist that co-founded the cell theory. Discovered different biological processes in plants and food. Defined the cell as the simplest unit of an animal's structure.

  • Virchow

    Virchow
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    Rudolf Virchow

    Discovered that only groups of cells get sick, not the whole organism, and the theory that every cell comes from another cell.

  • Pasteur

    Pasteur
  • Period: to

    Louis Pasteur

    Discovered pasteurization