Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632 – 1723 · Netherlands · Biology
Ground lenses in a draper's shop and discovered the microbial world.
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- Louis Pasteur
1822 – 1895 · Chemistry, Medicine
The microscopic living world Leeuwenhoek revealed is the object of germ theory.
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