The history of Microbiology scientists

1. Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1st to discover microbes using his own microscope

2. Robert Hooke, the 1st to visualize a microorganism

3. Louis Pasteur known for pasteurization, fermentaion

4. Robert Koch, founder of bacteriology. He discovered the anthrax

5. William Harvey discovered the full circulation of blood in the human body.

6. Alexander Fleming, best known for winning a Noble Peace Prize for the discovery of Penicillin.

7. Joseph Lister, best known for introducing carbonic acid to sterilize surgical instruments and wounds

8. Edward Jenner, instrumental in discovering the smallpox vaccine.

9. Isaac Newton discovered gravity from an apple falling from a tree.

10. Francesco Redi discovered that the presence of maggots on meat came from flies laying eggs on it, not from spontaneous generation.

11. Nicolas Copernicus formulated a model of the earth placing

12. Johannes Kelper known for the laws of planetary motion

13. Andreas Vesalius dissected numerous human cadavers and took detailed notes.