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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Hans Janssen helped his son Zacharias Janssen build the first compound telescope. -
Hans Lippershey
Lens maker credited for making the first telescope. -
Galileo Galilei
The first person to look at the moon through a telescope and make his first astronomy discovery. -
Robert Hooke
First person to study and record cells using a microscope. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
The first person to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants,the teaming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood copuscles in capillaries -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
The first person to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants,the teaming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood copuscles in capillaries -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
The first person to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants,the teeming of life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries. -
Theodor Schwann
Discovered a digestive enzyme for protein in the gastric juice pepsin. -
Matthieas Jakob Scheinden
Discovered that plant parts are made of cells. -
Robert Remak
Discovered nerve fibers -
Robert Remak
Discovered nerve fibers -
Rudolf Virchow
Known as the "Father of Patheology", he explained the effects of disease on the body. -
Ernst Abbe
Invented the apochromatic lens system for the microscope. -
Ernst Abbe
Invented the apochromatic lens system for the microscope. -
Max Knoll
Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska were working together to build the first telescope. -
Ernst Ruska
Built the first electron lens working closely with Max Knoll. -
Leo Szilard
First person to concieve the nuclear chain reaction. -
Gerd Binning
Designed the first scanning tunneling microscope with his partner Henrich Rohrer. -
Heinrich Rohrer
Began working on the scanning telescope with Gerd Binning. -
Hirox CO Ltd.
A company in Tokyo, Japan that invented the first digital microscope.