Word: leeuwenhoeks
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...Dutchman, Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), who invented the microscope, spent the last 50 years of his life studying and describing biological scum. Others have extended his work, until now scientists have a very wide knowledge of what lives on earth...
Skillful journalese hooks headlines to the following researchers, popularizes them: Antony Leeuwenhoek, "First of the Microbe Hunters"; Lazzaro Spallanzani," "Microbes Must Have Parents"; Louis Pasteur, "Microbes Are a Menace!"; Robert Koch, "The Death Fighter"; Louis Pasteur, "And the Mad Dog"; Emile Roux and Emil August Behring "Massacre the Guinea Pigs"; Elie Metchnikoff, "The Nice Phagocytes"; Theobald Smith, "Ticks and Texas Fever"; David Bruce, "Trail of the Tsetse"; Ronald Ross and Battista Grassi, "Malaria"; Walter Reed, "In the Interest of Science?and for Humanity!"; and Paul Ehrlich, "The Magic Bullet...