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    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Aristotle got the idea that genes do exist and that every living thing has their own set of genes. so every living thing has a parent and a predictable offspring
  • Zacharias Jansen

    Zacharias Jansen
    FIrst microscope used ideras from spontanious generation.
  • Jan Baptist van helmont

    Jan Baptist van helmont
    first to question spontanious generation. he considered that things like sulfer, salt, mercury, were created through chemical processes rather than being preexistant
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Wrote Micrographia which studied various objects with his microscope.
  • Anton van leeuwenhoek

    Anton van leeuwenhoek
    Simple microscope with one lens to look at blood, insects, snd mainly other objects. Firsrt to describe cells and bacteria.
  • Lorenz oken

    Lorenz oken
    Came up with a new system of animal classifycation that demonstrates evolution.
  • Robert brown

    Robert brown
    The first to recognize the nucleus and the general occurence of the nucleus in cells.
  • Matthais Schleiden

    Matthais Schleiden
    studied plant structure under the microscope and recognized the importance of a cell nucleus.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    digestive enzyme
  • Albrecht von Roelliker

    Albrecht von Roelliker
    Realized that sperm cells and egg cells are also cells.
  • rudulf virchow

    rudulf virchow
    First to recognize leukemia cells, and he helped alot with cell theory which built on the work of Theodor Schwann
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered pasturization. Worked with gem theory which led to discover some vacimes and medicine.