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Father and son made the first compound micrscope,
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Discovered a honeycomb-like structure in a cork slice using a compound microscope.
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Was the first person to observe and describe single cells. He was also the first to record and observe mussle tissue, blood and bacteria.
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He believed spontaneous generation held that livingcreatures could develop from lifeless matter, especially from decaying matter.
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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.
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known for his description of the natural continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to be called Brownian movement
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He discovered that all plants are made up of cells.
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He showed that yeast were tiny plant-like organisms, and suggested that fermentation was a biological process.
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His most famous discovery is the theory that cells are made from division of themselves
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his most famous developments a vaccine against rabies