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  2. Robert Hooke - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Robert Hooke FRS (/ hʊk /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) [ 4 ][ a ] was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. [ 5 ] He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [ 6 ] using a compound ...

  3. List of places in the United States named after people ...

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    Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President; Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) [156] Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury [156] Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper

  4. Freshwater, Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    The renowned scientist Robert Hooke (1635–1703) was born in Freshwater in 1635. His father John Hooke was the curate of All Saints Church in Freshwater. When Hooke's father died in 1648, [29] Hooke left Freshwater for London to be apprenticed to portrait painter Peter Lely. After that, he went to Westminster School and then Oxford.

  5. Hooke's law - Wikipedia

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    The law is named after 17th-century British physicist Robert Hooke. He first stated the law in 1676 as a Latin anagram. [1] [2] He published the solution of his anagram in 1678 [3] as: ut tensio, sic vis ("as the extension, so the force" or "the extension is proportional to the force"). Hooke states in the 1678 work that he was aware of the law ...

  6. Rudolf Virchow - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (/ ˈvɪərkoʊ, ˈfɪərxoʊ / VEER-koh, FEER-khoh, [1] German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈvɪʁço, - ˈfɪʁço]; [2][3] 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology " and as ...

  7. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - Wikipedia

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    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Dutch Republic, on 24 October 1632. On 4 November, he was baptized as Thonis. His father, Philips Antonisz van Leeuwenhoek, was a basket maker who died when Antonie was only five years old. His mother, Margaretha (Bel van den Berch), came from a well-to-do brewer's family.

  8. Cell theory - Wikipedia

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    The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, which can be found to be described in his book Micrographia. In this book, he gave 60 observations in detail of various objects under a coarse, compound microscope. One observation was from very thin slices of bottle cork. Hooke discovered a multitude of tiny pores that he named "cells".

  9. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...