Trivia Question: What Dutch scientist is known as “The Father of Microbiology”?
Answer: Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Major improvements to microscope technology helped van Leeuwenhoek catalog previously-invisible wonders. His discovery of germs, especially, altered the course of history. Human beings finally had an understanding of how sickness was scientifically caused, and so could better fight the spread of disease.
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