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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek was a cloth salesman in Holland and an amateur scientist. Leeuwenhoek's sill was building microscopes. His microscope could magnify over 200 times. He was one of the first people to observe and record microbes. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke beileved that good science resulted from making observations on what you could see. Hooke wrote a book called "micrographia" published in 1665. Hooke alse invented a microscope which was the best one at the time. He was most remembered for including drawings in what he observed under the mircoscope. -
Matthias Jokob Schleiden
Mattias Jokob Schleiden liked using a microscope for looking at to study plants. He claimed that all plants are made of cells. -
Karl Theodor Ernst Von Siebold
Karl Theodor Ernst Von Siebold suggested that microbes were also made up of cells. Although he was wrong about this idea, he was correct stating that microbes were living creatures made up of the same material as aniamls and plants. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann spent his time studying aniamls. He claimed that animals area also made up of cells. Schleiden and Schwann developed the cell theory: that all living organisms are made up of cells. -
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss concluded that chdbed fever must be infectious and could be spread from something found in the dead bodies. He also beileved that doctors were carrying the diseases from patient to patient. -
Florence Nightingale
Was on og the first nurses to recognize the value of cleanliness and recommended it a part of good nursing. -
Rudolf Carl Virchow
Rudolf Carl Virchow had been treating and studying ill patients for many years. He stated when you see a new plant or a body aniaml, you see a multicellular. Infectious diseases are different as scientist after Virchow discovered. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur a french chemist, began studying microbes in 1864. He was working on an important business in France. Pasteur discovered that different microbes cause different kinds of spoiling, but heat can kill many of these microbes. -
Jossph Lister
Concerned of the high death rates of patients after surgery. He came up with the idea of killing germs with chemicals. As a result, the death rate dropped 15%. -
Robert Koch
A german doctor, identified the microbe that casued anthrax, an infectious disease that was killing cattle. -
William Stewart Halsted
He tried to prevent the germs in the first place. This helped reduce the presence of even more microbes and reduce the presence of even more microbes and improve patient health.
