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Hans and Zacharias Janson
Father and son made the first compound micrscope, -
Robert Hooke
Discovered a honeycomb-like structure in a cork slice using a compound microscope. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Was the first person to observe and describe single cells. He was also the first to record and observe mussle tissue, blood and bacteria. -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
He believed spontaneous generation held that livingcreatures could develop from lifeless matter, especially from decaying matter. -
Francesco Redi
He was the first person to prove that spontaneous generation did not cause the growth of maggots in decaying meat, but they appeared from eggs deposited by flies. -
Robert Brown
known for his description of the natural continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to be called Brownian movement -
Matthias Schleiden
He discovered that all plants are made up of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
He showed that yeast were tiny plant-like organisms, and suggested that fermentation was a biological process. -
Rudolph Virchow
His most famous discovery is the theory that cells are made from division of themselves -
Louis Pasteur
his most famous developments a vaccine against rabies