Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss

male, deceased (1888)
Carl Zeiss (September 11, 1816 - December 3, 1888) was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Zeiss. Zeiss himself also made a few...
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

male, deceased (1723)
Thonius Philips van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 - August 30, 1723) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly...
Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska

male, deceased (1988)
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906-May 27, 1988) was a German physicist. Ruska was born in Heidelberg. He was educated at the...
Marcello Malpighi

Marcello Malpighi

male, deceased (1694)
Marcello Malpighi (March 10, 1628 - September 30, 1694) was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features. He was a...
Jan Swammerdam

Jan Swammerdam

male, deceased (1680)
Jan Swammerdam was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, la...

George Adams

male, deceased (1795)
George Adams Sr (1773) was an English optician and scientific writer who was also well known as a maker of mathematical instruments and globes....
Hans Christian Gram

Hans Christian Gram

male, deceased (1938)
Hans Christian Joachim Gram (September 13, 1853 - November 14, 1938) was a Danish bacteriologist. He was the son of Frederik Terkel Julius Gram, a...
Henry Baker

Henry Baker

male, deceased (1774)
Henry Baker (May 8, 1698-November 25, 1774) was an English naturalist. Baker was born in London. After serving an apprenticeship with a bookseller,...
Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

male, deceased (1881)
Matthias Jakob Schleiden (April 5, 1804 - June 23, 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory. He was born in Hamburg, Germany....
Henry Clifton Sorby

Henry Clifton Sorby

male, deceased (1908)
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10, 1826 - March 9, 1908), English microscopist and geologist, was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire. He...