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Redi and Pasteur
Redi and Pasteur
Redi and Pasteur helped to disprove spontaneous generation.
yes, by gathering information to disprove thee idea of spontaneous generation
The two scientists were Redi and Louis Pasteur. (sorry, can't remember Redi's first name.)
M. Louis Pasteur showed that microorganisms are born of other microorganisms in water and air (i learned this in grade 8) Um excuse me, this is actually the conclusion that was drawn, not the results of the experiment, so please get your facts straight
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
two scientists from the 19th century that rejected the idea of spontaneous generation.
Louis Pasteur conducted a number of ground breaking experiments throughout his life. One was the disproving of the notion of spontaneous generation. Prior to this, there was the assumption that some life could spontaneously arise from nothing- such as the idea that maggots could appear from nowhere in a piece of rotten meat. In his experiment, Pasteur showed that while a piece of rotten meat attracted maggots, a piece of meat covered with a mesh just small enough to prevent flies from landing did not- indicating that flies had to deposit eggs for maggots to form. Also he developed the sterilization technique of pasteurization and invented a rabies vaccine.
Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur, as well as Lazzaro Spallanzani and John Tyndall, all did scientific experiments (as opposed to philosophical writings) challenging the idea that life could quickly arise in the absence of any life from which other life could grow. This idea, formally dating back to the ancient Greeks, is called "spontaneous generation." The experiments of these four showed that spontaneous generation did not occur in situations that others thought it did. Like any good science controversy, other scientists did experiments that supported spontaneous generation, but Pasteur and Tyndall were able to do experiments that were rigorous enough to unambiguously disprove this idea.
Louis Pasteur with the S-shaped neck flask