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Francisco Redi
He had used an experiment to test his hypothesis that only flies produce more flies. His experiment then proved to be true and that only a living thing can produce another living thing. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
He made microscopes and studied many substances like blood, matter from his teeth and pond water. He became the first person to observe organisms made of only a single cell, which he then called "animalcules" -
Robert Hooke
He had been experimenting with microscopes he built and he saw tiny honeycomb looking cellulae, which he then called our present word for it, "cell". -
Francisco Redi
In his early years, he had suffered from epilepsy, he died in his sleep at age 71 -
Robert Hooke
He died from symptoms possibly caused from diabetes at age 67. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
He had died at age 90 from a rare disease -
Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
They suggested that all organisms are made of cells, a cell is the basic unit of life. They are now known for developing the cell theory. -
Rudolf Virchow
He discovered that diseases appear in diseased cells and not in organs and such. -
Louis Pasteur
He did an experiment that proved that micro-organisms come are produced from other micro-organisms, not by just appearing. -
Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
Schleiden died in 1881, while Schwann died in 1882 -
Louis Pasteur
He died from having a stroke at the age of 72. -
Rudolf Virchow
He died at the age of 80 from heart failure -
James Hillier and Albert Prebus
They had developed an electron microscope that could magnify up to 7000x. -
James Hillier and Albert Prebus
Hillier died at the age of 92 in 2007, while Prebus died at the age of 84 1997