| A | B |
|---|
| al Hytham | (Ibn) discovered connection between vision and light reflection - 1010 |
| Jansen | (Zacharius) first microscope - 1590 |
| Hooke | (Robert) discovered cells using compound microscope - 1665 |
| van Leeuwenhoek | (Anton) discovered unicellular "little beasties" bacteria and yeast - 1673 |
| Linnaeus | (Carolus) taxonomy, classification of known species - 1753 |
| Schleiden | (Matthias) plants made of cells - 1838 |
| Schwann | (Theodor) animals made of cells, Cellular Theory Pts 1&2 - 1839 |
| Virchow | (Rudolf) Cellular Theory Pt 3, cells come from cells, (life comes from life) - 1858 |
| Golgi | (Camillo) Golgi bodies/complex in cells - 1858 |
| van Helmont | (Jan Baptista) biochemistry and "gas" - 1858 |
| Priestly | (Joseph) oxygen, light and plant growth, plants produce O2 - 1858 |
| Ingenhousz | (Jan) photosynthesis - 1858 |
| Darwin | (Charles) natural selection a mechanism of Evolution? - 1859 |
| Mendel | (Gregor) "pea plants" genetic inheritance - 1865 |
| Stevens | (Nettie) X and Y chromosomes and gender - 1905 |
| Hodgkin | (Dorothy Crowfoot) protein structure - 1934 |
| Krebs | (Hans) cellular respiration cycle - 1937 |
| Avery | (Oswald T.) DNA carries genetic properties - 1944 |
| Franklin | (Rosalind) photographs DNA - 1951 |
| Watson and Crick | (James and Francis, respectively) double helix structure of DNA - 1953 |
| Jeffries | (Alec) DNA "fingerprinting" - 1984 |
