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Francisco Redi was a Italian physician and poet who found that maggots in meat does not result in spontanious generation.
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Anton Van Leeuwhoek created single lens microscopes to make the first observations of bacteria and protoza.
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Robert Hooke is known for his discovery of elasticity. the cell was also first discoverd and named by Robert in 1665.
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Rudolf said that each cell comes from another cell, which became a concept for theory.
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Mattias and Theodore cofounded the cell theory. Schleiden defined the cell as the basic unit of plant structure, later Schwann defined the cell as the basic unit of animal structure.
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Louis is best known for pasteurization, pasteurization kills microbes and prevents spoilage in foods and drinks.
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james and albert created every component of their microscope from scratch.