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  2. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Cell theory - Wikipedia

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    From these conclusions about plants and animals, two of the three tenets of cell theory were postulated. 1. All living organisms are composed of one or more cells 2. The cell is the most basic unit of life. Schleiden's theory of free cell formation through crystallization was refuted in the 1850s by Robert Remak, Rudolf Virchow, and Albert ...

  4. List of microbiologists - Wikipedia

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    Major contributions to the science of microbiology (as a discipline in its modern sense) have spanned the time from the mid-17th century month by month to the present day. The following is a list of notable microbiologists who have made significant contributions to the study of microorganisms .

  5. Preformationism - Wikipedia

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    For two centuries, until the development of cell theory, preformationists would oppose epigenicists, and, inside the preformationist camp, spermists (who claimed the homunculus must come from the man) to ovists, who located the homunculus in the ova. Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was one of the first to observe spermatozoa. He ...

  6. Abiogenesis - Wikipedia

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    In 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek drew and described microorganisms, probably protozoa and bacteria. [24] Van Leeuwenhoek disagreed with spontaneous generation, and by the 1680s convinced himself, using experiments ranging from sealed and open meat incubation and the close study of insect reproduction, that the theory was incorrect. [25]

  7. Theodor Schwann - Wikipedia

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    The cell is the unit of structure, physiology, and organization in living things. [32] The cell retains a dual existence as a distinct entity and a building block in the construction of organisms. [32] By the 1860s, these tenets were the accepted basis of cell theory, used to describe the elementary anatomical composition of plants and animals. [3]

  8. Biology - Wikipedia

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    Biology is the science of life. ... Schwann cells by one of the founders of cell theory, ... develop with Anton van Leeuwenhoek's dramatic improvement of ...

  9. Microorganism - Wikipedia

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    Turkish scientist Akshamsaddin mentioned the microbe in his work Maddat ul-Hayat (The Material of Life) about two centuries prior to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's discovery through experimentation: It is a mistake to assume that diseases appear in individuals one by one. Diseases are transmitted from person to person.