Micro Scientists

Question 1

Robert Hooke

Answer 1

Made the first microscope

Question 2

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 2

Made lenses and saw animalcules

Question 3

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 3

Created the system of binomial nomenclature

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

Proposed spontaneous generation

Question 5

Francesco Redi

Answer 5

Experiment proving that maggots did not arise spontaneously

Question 6

John T. Needham

Answer 6

Experiment reinforced, spontaneous generation

Question 7

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Answer 7

Challenged Needhams experiment stating he did not heat flask enough or seal flask tight enough, concluding biogenesis instead

Question 8

Louis Pasteur

Answer 8

Concluded that microbes are present in air and can contaminate sterile solutions. Also research why grape juice sometimes turned into alcohol or acid.
Father of microbiology
Demonstrated that life did not arise spontaneously
created germ theory disease

Question 9

Robert Koch

Answer 9

studied causative agents (microbes) of disease
Koch’s postulates(series of repeatable steps to prove that a disease is caused by a specific infectious agent (microbe)
-father of bacteriology