Who is known as Father of Microscopy?

Answer 1

The father of microscopy, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek of Holland (1632-1723), started as an apprentice in a dry goods store where magnifying glasses were used to count the threads in cloth. Anton van Leeuwenhoek was inspired by the glasses used by drapers to inspect the quality of cloth. He taught himself new methods for grinding and polishing tiny lenses of great curvature which gave magnifications up to 270x diameters, the finest known at that time.

These lenses led to the building of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes considered the first practical microscopes, and the biological discoveries for which he is famous. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674), yeast plants, the teeming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries. During a long life he used his lenses to make pioneer studies on an extraordinary variety of things, both living and non-living, and reported his findings in over a hundred letters to the Royal Society of England and the French Academy.

Answer 2

It has never been generally known that Tom, the fishmonger's tall son, was

the father of microscopy, because Mrs. Leeuwenhoek so brilliantly succeeded

at suppressing the sordid truth.

Answer 3

The person who is known as the Father of Microscopy is Zacharias Janssen. This is because he was the one who invented the microscope.

Answer 4

Robert Hooke.

Answer 5

Robert boyle