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Name: Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Birth Date: October 24, 1632
Death Date: August 26, 1723
Place of Birth: Delft, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Gender: Male
Occupations: naturalist, microscopist

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Biography of Anton van Leeuwenhoek
1,191 words, approx. 4 pages
The Dutch naturalist and microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), using simple microscopes of his own making, discovered bacteria, protozoa, spermatozoa, rotifers, Hydra and Volvox, and also parthenogenesis in aphids. Anton van Leeuwenhoek was...
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Biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
668 words, approx. 2 pages
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is best remembered as the first person to study bacteria and "animalcules," or one-celled organisms now known as protozoa. Unlike his contemporaries Robert Hooke and Marcello Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek did not use the more advanced...
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Biography of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
665 words, approx. 2 pages
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is best remembered as the first person to study bacteria and "animalcules," or one-celled animals, now known as protozoa. Unlike his contemporaries Robert Hooke and Marcello Malpighi, Leeuwenhoek did not use the more advanced...
 


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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Summary
602 words, approx. 2 pages
1632-1723 Dutch Microscopist and Scientist Known as the father of microbiology, Anton van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch scientist who was the first to use a microscope to observe bacteria and protozoa (one-celled animals). His researches on lower animals...
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Summary
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1632-1723 Dutch microscopist and biologist who was among the first to study biological specimens with a microscope. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern biology. He was first to observe bacteria and protozoa; co-discovered spermatozoa;...


News and Journals
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Science News
Myriad Monsters Confirmed in Water Droplets.(Antony van Leeuwenhoek's discovery in 1677)(Brief Article)
12/18/1999: 672 words, approx. 2 pages
LONDON, November 1677--A Dutch merchant's startling claim that thousands of tiny monsters frolic within a single droplet of water was verified at the Nov. 15 meeting of the Royal Society of London. Society Fellow Robert Hooke, who made the decisive confirmation, de...
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Child Life
Leeuwenhoek, the Microscope, and the Need for Soap.
10/01/2001: 692 words, approx. 2 pages
Wretched beasties moving about very nimbly," was what Anton van Leeuwenhoek (LAY-vuhn-hohk) said about the things he was looking at through a microscope. Later he called these "beasties" animalcules, or little animals. He saw different animalcules when he looked at drops of rainwater,...
 


 

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