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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
These brothers made the first compound microscopes and help people look into the tiny world of cells. -
Robert Hooke
Robert looked at a cork through a microscope and found out that the cork did not have cells, because it was not alive. -
Francisco Redi
Francisco Redi discovered that ‘spontaneous generation’ was fake and just a theory. -
Spontaneous Generation
Fransisco Redi found this myth to be only a myth and proved it with an experiment proving everyone who believed in this ‘spontaneous generation’ wrong. -
Anton Van Leeuhoek
Anton found many different forms of micro-organisms using improved lenses. -
Lazarro Spallanzani
Lazarro performed an experiment that proved there were micro-organisms in the air that spoiled the soup he boiled for the experiment. -
Matthias Schleiden
Matthias discovered that plants were made of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor examined animal tissue, and the result was expanding Schleiden’s hypothesis. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis also destroyed the spontaneous generation myth by boiling a broth of beef in a swan neck flask. -
Rudolf Virchow
In 1855, Virchow added the third, and last, statement into the cell theory. -
Germ Theory
The germ theory states that many diseases are caused by microorganisms. These small organisms, too small to see without magnification, invade humans, animals, and other living things. -
Antoine Bechamp
Antoine Bechamp created the Terrain Theory to go against the Germ theory, which was made by Louis Pastuer. -
Terrain Theory
This theory was proposed by Antoine Bechamp when Louis Pasteur came up with the Germ Theory. -
Robert Koch
His discoveries made a significant contribution to the development of the first ‘magic bullets’
