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Robert Hooke
First to use the term "cell" when he was describing honeycomb cavities in cork. -
Francesco Redi
Proved sponteneous generation did not exist with the use of maggots and meat. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Known for his creations of microscopes and his discovery of Bacteria and many other microorganisms -
John Needham
tried to prove that microorganisms spontaneously reproduce, specifically microscopic animals -
Lazarro Spallanzani
set out to prove the existance of microoganism and are present around us. -
Edward Jenner
Began the process that led to his discovery of the small pox vaccination by taking pus from a cowpox postule and entering it in his test subject. -
Ignaz Semmelweiss
Proved that hand washing reduces the number of women dead after childbirth -
Rudolf Virchow
used cell theory to explain disease in the organs and tissues in the body, and that these diseaes arise in their individual cells -
Joseph Lister
introduced and carried out the idea of sterile surgery to avoid the risk of illness and infection post procedure -
Theodor Schwann
fermentation such as that of sugar and starch is a result of life process -
Louis Pasteur (pasteurization)
through his study of pasteurization, he concluded that all fermantation of liquid could be prevented with a heating technique -
Louis Pasteur (vaccine)
Began the rpocess of finding vaccinacions for different illneses through different trial processes -
Robert Koch
Discovered the bateria responsible for tuberculosis and later recieved a Nobel Prize for his work. -
Aristotle
(around 323 B.C.) began the classification of items, specifically in this case, animal species -
Paul Erlich
discovered the first effective treatment for syphilis and received a Nobel Prize soon after -
Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin and later recieved the Nobel Prize for the discovery in 1945
