Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Inventor of germs

Inventor of germs Antony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, The Netherlands. He comes from a family among the middle and most of his life was in a position of municipal employees who are not so important.
The discovery of a large Leeuwenhoek no effect other hobby-squinting squinting through a microscope glass. At that time,
of course, people can not just run to the store and buy a microscope, because it membikinnya own Leeuwenhoek. He is absolutely not a professional lens polisher and have not been able to special education in that field. Even so, the expertise developed incredible, far beyond the habits of the professionals at the time.
Although the device was found in the microscope before Leeuwenhoek was born, he did not use it. Instead, carefully and precisely he rubbed a small lens. Leeuwenhoek microscope capable of producing a power of observation is much better than an existing microscope. One of the remaining lens has the capacity to raise about 270 times, even a sign that he managed to make more perfect than that.

Leeuwenhoek had a profound patience and diligent observer, has a sharp vision and the curiosity that has no end. With a very small lens that he studied various kinds of objects, from hair to sperm dog, from the point of rain to a small insect. Fiber, the skin and various other objects. He made careful notes and made detailed sketches of each of what he observed.

Countless years of 1673 and beyond, Leeuwenhoek always a relationship with "The Royal Society of England" a leading scientific institution at that time.

Although he did not have high educational background (primary school only, and only know one language, Dutch language), he was elected a member of the scientific institution in the year 1680. He is also a member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris.

Leeuwenhoek married twice, had six children but no grandchildren. Good health, still works hard in his life lately. Many famous people visited, including the Russian Czar, Peter the Great, and the Queen of England. He exhaled breath in 1723 efflux also in Delft at the age of 90 years.

Leeuwenhoek made many important discoveries. He was the first person to describe the spermatozoon (1677), and was one of the early outlines of red blood and white blood. He opposed the theory of spontaneous generation of simple forms of life and expose a lot of evidence contrary to it. He was able to show, for example, that small animals wingless blood-eaters breed in a way similar to the winged insects.

The biggest discovery came in 1674 when he made the first study to germs. This is one of the great discoveries of semen that resulted in fertilization in human history. At the point that little water Leeuwenhock find a world that is completely new, completely unpredictable world, full of life. Although not yet realized, this new world mean something very important to mankind. In fact, "very small microscopic objects" that are often observed significant power factor for both human life and death. Once was examined, Leeuwenhoek could find germs in various places different: in the well and in the puddle, the rain drops, at the mouth to the anus and intestines of man. He describes the various forms of bacteria, protozoa and also calculate the size.

The use of large discovery Leeuwenhoek unfulfilled until the arrival of the Pasteur nearly two centuries later. The fact is, the whole object of microbiological problems virtually no activity until the 19th century when improved microscopes developed. People may question if Leeuwenhock was never born into the world and the findings did not occur until the 19th century, probably made little difference to the progress of science. However, there is no argument that Leeuwenhoek was the one who discovered germs, and through him the world of science became aware of his presence.

Leeuwenhoek is often regarded as people who by good fortune happened to slip on an important scientific discovery. This is absolutely far from the truth. The discovery of micro-organisms it is a normal result of the careful fabrication of the microscope with the quality of incomparable with the existing time, and patience and precision as a researcher. In other words, discovery is the result of a combination of skill and hard work, the opposite and had nothing to do with fate than luck.

The discovery of these bacteria is an important scientific discovery made by a rare individual. Leeuwenhoek really work alone. The discovery of protozoa and bacteria can not help anyone-not the case in some of the biggest advances in the field of biology - and not a natural growth from the previous biological knowledge Michael H. Hart,One hundred most influential figures in the history.