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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch draper and self-taught scientist of Delft. Using small single-lens microscopes of his own making, he was the first to observe and describe bacteria and protozoa, and he studied sperm cells and the flow of blood in capillaries, reporting his discoveries in letters to the Royal Society of London from 1673. He is regarded as the father of microbiology.
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