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  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (www.whonamedit.com)
Leeuwenhoek's research on the life histories of various low forms of animals were in opposition to the doctrine that they could be produced spontaneously or bred from corruption.
Leeuwenhoek was particularly attentive to the blood vessels and the blood.
Leeuwenhoek also carefully studied the history of the ant and was the first to show that what had been reputed to be ants' eggs, were really their pupae, containing the perfect insect nearly ready for emergence, and that the true eggs were much smaller and gave origin to maggots, or larvae.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Leeuwenhoek Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Leeuwenhoek Medal, in 1877 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (KNAW), in honor of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, is granted every ten years to the scientist judged to have made the most significant contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade.
Anton von Leeuwenhoek Anton van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 _ August 26, 1723) was a tradesman and scientist from Delft, in the Netherlands.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (Antoni in Dutch) (1632-1723) was a tradesman and scientist from Delft, in the Netherlands.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Leeuwenhoek,
Bacteria were first observed in the 17th century by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, but it was not until the researches of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in the mid-19th century that bacteriology was established as a scientific discipline.
A Dictionary of Scientists; 1/1/1999; 502 words; Leeuwenhoek, Anton van (1632–1723) Dutch microscopist Born the son of a basket maker at Delft in the Netherlands, Leeuwenhoek received little formal education and was apprenticed...
The Leeuwenhoek Medal was established in 1875 in honor of scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek following his invention of the microscope...
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 Astrology of Anton von Leeuwenhoek with horoscope chart, quotes, biography, and images
Leeuwenhoek's interest in microscopes and a familiarity with glass processing led to one of the most significant, and simultaneously well-hidden, technical insights in the history of science.
With regards to the construction of his microscopes, however, Leeuwenhoek maintained throughout his life that there were aspects of their construction "which I only keep for myself," including in particular his most critical secret of how he created lenses.
Van Leeuwenhoek's discoveries did overturn the traditional belief of the time in the spontaneous generation of life.[citation needed] This belief or theory was generally held by the 17th century scientific community, and was also tacitly endorsed by the 17th century Church.
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 Microbiology History
Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft on October 24, 1632.
Leeuwenhoek is known to have made over 500 "microscopes," of which fewer than ten have survived to the present day.
Leeuwenhoek's skill at grinding lenses, together with his naturally acute eyesight and great care in adjusting the lighting where he worked, enabled him to build microscopes that magnified over 200 times, with clearer and brighter images than any of his colleagues could achieve.
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 WAW Moll Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Maar wellicht het belangrijkste is dat van Leeuwenhoek (hij kon geen Latijn) in een niet wetenschappelijke en nog steeds zeer leesbare taal zijn bevindingen beschreef in zijn "ONTDEKKINGEN".
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek : Eenvoud is het kenmerk van het ware genie.
The lens of the van Leeuwenhoek microscope is catched between two (copper,silver or brass) plates and and with a pinhole to hold a tiny drop of fluid.
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 Learn more about Anton van Leeuwenhoek in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Using his handcrafted microscope he was the first to observe and describe muscles fibres, bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow in capillaries (small blood vessels).
Unfortunately, he only spoke Dutch and the scientific language of the time was Latin.
Van Leeuwenhoek also appeared on an unused design for a 10 Guilder note done by M.C. Escher in 1951.
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 World's Greatest Creation Scientists from Y1K to Y2K
Leeuwenhoek did not invent the microscope (compound magnifying lenses were known 40 years before he was born), but he took it to new levels of power.
As Leeuwenhoek’s observations were found to be true and accurate, his reputation grew, and by 1680 this untrained layman was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Leeuwenhoek investigated almost anything and everything that could be held up to his lens, exemplifying technical skill, persistence, curiosity, insight and penchant for accuracy that would become a model for others working in experimental biology.
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The SMSI is one of the oldest microscopical societies in the world, and is only three years younger than the Quekett Microscopical Club, and the already 30 year younger than the Royal Microscopical Society.
Bill Mikuska, SMSI President, explains that the engraver of the medal sadly suffered a heart attack before the job was done, and recovered later in time to complete the task.
The medal winner for 1999 was Don Thomson and the 2000 winner is Savile Bradbury of Pembroke College, Oxford.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Using his handcrafted microscope he was the first to observe and describe muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow in capillaries (small blood vessels).
In his lifetime, Leeuwenhoek was visited by many powerful figures, including Queen Anne of England and Peter the Great, from Russia.
Nobody was able to view his best microscopes or recreate microscopes as great as his for over one hundred years after his death.
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 Leeuwenhoek - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
Leeuwenhoek Formerly Lecturer in the History...The Life and Works of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek FRS With a biographical chapter by...became acquainted with the works of Leeuwenhoek.
Leeuwenhoek was as great as any of them, although in a different field...
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 Carl Woese
Yet, the growing amount of supporting data led the scientific community in general to accept the Archaea by the mid 1980s.
Woese was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984, was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, received the Leeuwenhoek medal (microbiology's highest honor) in 1992, and was a National Medal of Science recipient in 2000.
In 2003, he received the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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 Profile for Carl Woese
Woese has been recognized as one of the leading researchers in his field.
He was also a National Medal of Science recipient in 2000.
Woese describes himself as a molecular biologist turned evolutionist whose research interests focus on the molecular evolution of prokaryotes and the structure-function of protein translation apparatus.
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 Microbe Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1875, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences initiated the Leeuwenhoek Medal to commemorate van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microorganisms 200 years ago.
This gold medal bears the portrait of van Leeuwenhoek and is awarded about once in 10 years to a scientist who has made the most important contributions in the past decennium in the field of microbiology.
            For the Leeuwenhoek medal for 2003, 14 scientists were nominated, among which several belong without question to the most outstanding microbiologists of the last decennium.
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 The discovery by Brian J Ford of Leeuwenhoek's original specimens, from the dawn of microscopy in the 16th century.
Answer: To the vaults of the Royal Society where biologist Brian Ford revealed that slides prepared by Antony Leeuwenhoek - a Dutch 17th century pioneer of the microscope - shows that his techniques were almost as advanced as today's.
BJF, 1992, From Dilettante to Diligent Experimenter, a Reappraisal of Leeuwenhoek as microscopist and investigator, Biology History, 5 (3), December.
Corliss, John O., 2002, citations of Brian J Ford Single Lens and Leeuwenhoek Legacy [in] A Salute to Antony van Leeuwenhoek of Delft, Protist, 153: 177-190, June.
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 Anton van Leeuwenhoek - TheBestLinks.com - August 26, Bacterium, Blood, Cell biology, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Leeuwenhoek Medal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Leeuwenhoek Medal established in 1877 by the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences in honor of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is granted every ten years to scientist judged to have made the most contribution to microbiology during the preceding decade.
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 Leeuwenhoek Medal awarded to German Scientist
On 24 November, Karl Stetter, a expert on extremophiles at the University of Regensburg in Germany received the Leeuwenhoek Medal from the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences.
The award is given once a decade in honour of the microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.
Stetter is the world's most successful cultivator of hyperthermophiles, the organisms that grow fastest at temperatures "where others are boiled to death within seconds," he explains cheerfully.
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 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, and in 1992 was the 12th recipient of microbiology's highest honor, the Leeuwenhoek Medal.
In 1989, Woese was appointed to the Center for Advanced Study, the highest faculty recognition of the Urbana campus.
The Crafoord prize was established in 1980 by Ann-Greta and Holger Crafoord to recognize achievements in areas not covered by the Nobel Prize, which the academy also awards.
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 Microbiologist Carl R. Woese named winner of National Medal of Science
Carl R. Woese, a University of Illinois microbiologist whose identification of the archaea changed the way life is classified on Earth, is among 12 U.S. scientists and engineers named today (Nov. 13) by President Clinton as winners of the National Medal of Science.
In 1992, he won microbiology's highest honor, the Leeuwenhoek Medal, given each decade by the Dutch Royal Academy of Science in the name of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope and the discoverer of the microbial world.
In 1989, Woese was appointed to the UI Center for Advanced Study.
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 BioASP Nieuwsbrief December 16 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Diversa`s scientific advisor, Karl Stetter, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, has been awarded the highly prestigious Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
The Leeuwenhoek Medal was established in 1875 in honor of scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek following his invention of the microscope.
The last Leeuwenhoek Medal was granted to Dr. Carl Woese in 1992 for his work discovering the Archaea and defining the "third domain of life," once thought by scientists to be an unusual type of bacteria.
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 Pasteur, Louis
In 1940, 45 years after being treated for rabies, Meister was ordered by German forces occupying Paris to open Pasteur's crypt, but he committed suicide rather than comply (Cohn 2004).)
Pasteur won the Leeuwenhoek medal, microbiology's highest honor, in 1895.
He was Grande Croix of the Legion of Honor.
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 Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Using his handcrafted microscope he was the first to observe and describe muscle fibres, bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow in capillaries (small blood vessels).
His microscope was used and improved by Christiaan Huygens for his own investigations into microscopy.
This is regarded by microbiologists as the highest honor in their field.
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At UIUC he has received the Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering and is the Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is currently the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and cochair of the Human Computer Intelligent Interaction major research theme of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
He has received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award; 1990 Leeuwenhoek Medal; Waksman Award; National Medal of Science; and Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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 Louis Pasteur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The first of the Pasteur Institutes was also built on the basis of this achievement.
He won the Leeuwenhoek medal, microbiology 's highest honor, in 1895.
Pasteur died in 1895 from complications caused by a series of strokes that had begun plaguing him as far back as 1868.
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 PR Newswire: Diversa Corporation Scientific Advisor Karl Stetter, Ph.D., Honored With Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Diversa Corporation Scientific Advisor Karl Stetter, Ph.D., Honored With Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; The Decade's Most Accomplished Microbiologist to Continue Work on the World's Largest Collection of Cultured Extremophiles at Diversa.
Diversa's scientific advisor, Karl Stetter, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, has been awarded the highly prestigious Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Microbiology pioneer Louis Pasteur was honored with the prestigious medal in 1895 for solving the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases and contributing to the development of the first...
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 Diversa Corporation Scientific Advisor Karl Stetter, Ph.D., Honored With Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal Netherlands ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Diversa's scientific advisor, Karl Stetter, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, has been awarded the highly prestigious Leeuwenhoek Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Microbiology pioneer Louis Pasteur was honored with the prestigious medal in 1895 for solving the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases and contributing to the development of the first vaccines.
Once each decade this award is given to the scientist who has made the most outstanding contributions to the advancement of microbiology.
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 Amherst Magazine Fall 2002: Darwin's Dsciple
Within a few years of his discovery, Woese's ideas were being debated by microbiologists everywhere, and he eventually won microbiology's most coveted prize, the Leeuwenhoek Medal, in 1992.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998, received a National Medal of Science in 2000 and a $300,000 “genius” award from the MacArthur Foundation.
Carl Woese ’50 has received this year’s Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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 AASP History Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Instead, it was in his microscopical studies that Ehrenberg was to make his most lasting contributions to science.
All in all, he established himself as the foremost microscopist of his day, receiving many scientific honors.
Though Ehrenberg never created a scientific school, his studies aroused great interest not only in Berlin but also in other countries he visited; Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1833, Italy in 1845, England and Ireland in 1847.
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