Question

Name the scientist who reported the discovery of microorganisms.
A) Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
B) Robert Hooke
C) Carl Linnaeus
D) Zacharias Janssen

Answer 1

Hint:The scientist who first reported the discovery of microbes was a dutch scientist and was closely related to the British Royal Society where he put forward his research results. He mostly experimented with microbes using single lensed microscopes.

Complete answer:
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek reported the discovery of microorganisms on the 9th of October, 1976.
He was a Dutch businessman and a self-taught scientist who is known as "the Father of Microbiology" for his pioneering work in microbiology and for his contribution towards establishing it as a scientific discipline.

He used single- lensed microscopes of his own design to experiment with microbes and became the first one to determine its size. He observed multicellular organisms in pond water and also the first to document microscopic observations of muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa, red blood cells.

Additional Information:
Robert hook, an English scientist known as "England's Leonardo", was the first scientist to visualize a microorganism. He contributed not only to biology but also to physics by investigating the optics and rotation of planets such as Mars and Jupiter.

Carl Linneaus is a well-heard name in biology, especially in the Nomenclature of species. He was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, and therefore, the L or Linn abbreviation is used in the Nomenclature of a species to indicate Linneaus as the authority for a Species' name.

Zacharias Janssen is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and first truly the compound microscope but his son Johannes Janssen fabricated these claims after 20 years of his death.

So, the correct answer is option ‘A’ i.e “Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek”.

Note:Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek made several lenses and microscopes but only a few of them survived. He made his discoveries mainly with the single-lensed microscope that he created. He studied a wide range of microscopic phenomenons and shared these results with the British Royal Society. His discoveries are listed below
-Infusoria
-Bacteria
-The vacuole of the cell
-Spermatozoa
-Banded pattern of muscular fibers.