Science Timeline

By mdwifk
  • Robert Hooke

    The cell was first discovered and named by Robert Hook back in 1665.
  • Francesco Redi

    Fancesco Redi did an experiment to test the creation of maggots by placing fresh meat into two different jars. That is how he discovered maggots.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek had discovered a bacteria in 1676.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden said that the cell is the basic unit of plant structure. A year later he said that the cell is the basic unit of animal structure.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow said that all living cells arise from pre-existing living cells.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur invented Pasteurization. Pasteurization kills microbes. He also developed vaccines for chicken cholera, anthrax, and rabies.
  • James HIllier

    James Hillier invented and designed the first successful high-resolution electron microscope.