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Robert Hooke
The invention of a telescope made the 'Cosmos" approachable to human observation, the microscope opened up smaller worlds, showing what living forms were composed of. The cell was first discovered and named by Robert Hooke -
Francesco Redi
Tested the hypothesis of spontaneous generation with flies on meat, and disproved it, demonstrated maggots come from flies. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek is and dutch scientist who discovery bacteria called "Animalcules" in 1676 when he discovered bacteria ( prokaryotic) Prokaryotic organisms only contain a singular cell, and bacteria are prokaryotic. -
Caspar Wolff
Caspar Wolff described embryonic development in both plants and animals in a process involving layers of cells. -
Felice Fontana
Felice Fontana was an Italian physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction.He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye. -
Matthias Schleiden
Matthias Schleiden was a German scientist who discovered that all plants are made of cells.Eukaryotic organisms can contain more than one cell, such as plant cells and animal cells. -
Theodore Schwann
Discovered that all animals are made of cells,He also discovered pepsin, the first digestive enzyme prepared from animal tissue, and experimented to disprove spontaneous generation -
Louis Pasteur
He also disproved spontaneous generation he boiled nutrient broth to flasks, bent the necks of the flask into S shapes, and boiled to kill existing microbes -
Ruldolf Virchow
Discovered that all cells come from other cells that already exist.
