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Hans and Zacharias Jansen
Produced the first compound microscope by combining two convex lenses within a tube. -
Robert Hooke
Discovered the cellular composition of cork and introduced the word cell to science. Because it was box like and reminded him of a prision cell. -
Francesco Redi
Proved that meat could not make maggots only flies landing on meat caused meat to have maggots -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Polised lenses of microscope to improve magnification -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered animacules, (an older term for a microscopic animal or protozoan. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered bacteria by a sample of saliva from him mouth. -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
He discovered that that if soup was in a container was clean and that micro-organisms that ruin the food enter from the air -
Robert Brown
Discovered the cell called nucleus. -
Matthias Schleiden
Discovered that plants were made up of cells -
Theodor Schwann
Discovered that animals were made up of cells -
Rudolph Virchow
Stated that all living things only come from other living things -
Louis Pasteur
discovered that soup could only be spoiled if it was exposed to unfiltered air in a jar that allows micro-organisms to enter.
