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Born October 24, 1632 • Delft • Netherlands
Died August 26, 1723 (aged 90) • Delft • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study weevil • bacteria • protozoan • red blood cell • spontaneous generation • microscope

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Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
René Dubos
American microbiologist
Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky
Russian microbiologist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi
Italian scientist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Maurice Hilleman
Maurice Hilleman
American microbiologist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Smith, Hamilton O.
Hamilton O. Smith
American biologist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
Félix d’ Hérelle
Canadian microbiologist
Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
American physician and microbiologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
François Jacob, 1965.
François Jacob
French biologist

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