Important Moments in Biology

By saitc12

  • Antony van Leeuwenhoek

    Antony van Leeuwenhoek
    He had no education,yet with skill,an endless curiosity, and an open mind free of the scientific dogma, Leeuwenhoek succeeded in making some of the most important discoveries in the history of biology. He discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes and rotifers, and much more. His researches, which were widely circulated, opened up an entire world of microscopic life to the awareness of scientists.

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    1655 - Robert Hooke (1635-1703) of Britain designed his own microscope and discovered matter made up of what he called cells.

  • Cells

    Cells
    Robert Hooke first discovered cells in 1665

  • Microscope

    Microscope
    More than 400 years ago in Holland, Zacharias Jansenn was in the business of grinding lenses for eyeglasses. Some of his lenses made things look bigger. He found that he could put two lenses together to make things look a LOT bigger. So, in about 1595, Zacharias built the first microscope. ("Micro" means "small." "Scope" means "to see.") The first microscopes made things look 20 or 30 times larger than they are. This is enough to see the details of some tiny plants and insects.

  • C.F. Wolff

    C.F. Wolff
    1759 - Caspar Fredrich Wolff (1733-1794) of Germany proposed a general cell theory.

  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    1859 - English biologist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published “On the Origin of Species,” explaining units of heredity and variations in species.

  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    1839 - Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) of Germany published cell theory as applied to animals.

  • Ernest Ruska

    Ernest Ruska
    Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988[1]) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.

  • Indigenous understanding of health and medicine

    Indigenous understanding of health and medicine
    The Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) was established in Redfern from 1971. It was the first Aboriginal community controlled health service in Australia, and it is now a key Indigenous community organisation,