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Robert Hooke
reported that living things were composed of little boxes of cells -
Francesco Redi
filled six jars with decaying meat -
John Needham
put boiled nutrient broth into covered flasks -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
boiled nutrient solutions into flasks -
Agostino Bassi
showed that a silkworm disease was caused by fungus -
Ignaz Semmelwise
advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one OB patient to another -
Rudolf Virchow
said cells arise from preexisting cells -
Louis Pasteur
demonstrated that microorganisms are present in the air -
Louis Pasteur
believed that another silkworm disease was caused by a protozoan -
Robert Koch
proved that a bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps, Koch's postulates, to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease
