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Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek [note 2] FRS (/ ˈ ɑː n t ə n i v ɑː n ˈ l eɪ v ən h uː k,-h ʊ k / AHN-tə-nee vahn LAY-vən-hook, -huuk; Dutch: [ˈɑntoːni vɑn ˈleːu.ə(n)ˌɦuk] ⓘ; 24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.
Birth - Death Microbiologist Nationality Contribution summary 1632–1723 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: Dutch Considered to be the first acknowledged microscopist.Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe microscopic organisms, using simple single-lensed microscopes of his own design.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) [9] First to produce precise, correct descriptions of protozoa. Quantitative genetics: Ronald A. Fisher [59] Taxonomy: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) [60] Devised the system of naming living organisms that became universally accepted in the scientific world. Virology: Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931) [61]
Animalcule (Latin for 'little animal'; from animal and -culum) is an archaic term for microscopic organisms that included bacteria, protozoans, and very small animals.The word was invented by 17th-century Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to refer to the microorganisms he observed in rainwater.
Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was one of the first to observe spermatozoa. He described the spermatozoa of about 30 species, and thought he saw in semen "all manner of great and small vessels, so various and so numerous that I do not doubt that they be nerves, arteries and veins...And when I saw them, I felt convinced that, in no ...
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