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362 BCE
Aristotle
(supported Spontaneous Generation)
He did a lot of things -
Zacharias Jansen
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
Invented the compound optical microscope -
Robert Hooke
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
He contributed to the discovery of cells while looking at a thin slice of cork. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
Observed bacteria and protozoa -
Jan Baptist van Helmont
(supported Spontaneous Generation)
Said that mice appeared after a dirty shirt and wheat were placed together for 21 days -
Lorenz Oken
(rejected Spontaneous Generation) proposed the sea slime theory -
Robert Brown
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
Discovered the nucleus of the cell -
Matthias Schleiden
(supported Spontaneous Generation)
Studied microscopic plant cells -
Theodor Schwann
(rejected spontaneous Generation)
Discovered flies don’t come from meat unless the flies were already present -
Albrecht von Roelliker
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
Discovered that all things are composted of cells like sperm and eggs. -
Rudolf Virchow
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
Was a pathologist’s -
Louis Pasteur
(rejected Spontaneous Generation)
Created vaccines and pasteurization