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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke had made the first microscope. He also wrote a book with observation and drawing of what he had discovered in the microscope. Micrographic is what the book is called. It had ideas that would become the basis of new fields in biology. But not for almost 200 years. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Was a cloth salesman, he was not interested in studying the microscopic world until he had read Robert Hooke book Micropraphia. Leeuwenhoek was skilled at building microscopes. It is able to magnify objects over 200 times. -
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss
He is a hungarian doctor, he was trying to prevent women from dying. In 1840s women that was pregnant often died. This diease was called Childbed fever. Semmelweiss tried washing his hands between patients. Less patients had died but other doctor wouldn't try this. They could have saved 12% to 1% of there patients lives. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He is a german professor, he was trained as a lawyer. But he left the law business to become a professor. Based on his study in 1838 he founded out that plants are made of cells.This was a very new idea. -
Theodor Schwann
He is a german biology professor. In 1839, he suggested that animals and not just plants, were made up of cells. Schleiden and Schwann has the credited for the Cell Theory. -
Karl Theodor Ernst Von Siebold
He is a german professor, he believed that organisms made up of many cells, like animals. But he was wrong about that idea, he was right stating that microbes were living creatures made up of the same material as animals and plants. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis is a french chemist he studied microbes in 1864. he noticed that certain microbes caused food and drinks to spoil. Different microbes cause different kinds of spoils. Heat can kill many of these microbes. Like milk it is heated to 71 degress celeius for 15 seconds to kill the microbes. -
Robert Koch
Koch was a German doctor. He identified three things; the microbes that caused anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. He created new way to prove that a certain microbe caused a disease. He develeoped a way to grow cultures of uncontaminated microbes. -
Florence Nightingale
She was an English nurse. She was the first to recognize cleanliness was good and recommended it as a part of good nursing. Fewer soldiers died because of her sanitation theory. -
Joseph Lister
He was a surgeon. He was concerned that 45% were dying of infections after surgery. He came up with the idea to kill germs with chemicals. He sprayed the air and required hand washing. He cleaned aprons surgical instruments. The death rate of patients after surgery dropped to 15% because it was clean. -
William Stewart Halsted
He was an American surgeon. He was the first surgeon to use rubber gloves during surgeries. The gloves were sterilized with chemicals and heat. It minimized the amount of germs and helped patients.
