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Anthony Van Levon Hook

ANTONY VAN LEEWENHOEK

1632 - 1723

Anthony van Levon Hooke, the man who discovered germs, was born in 1632 in Delft, Holland. He came from a middle-class family and spent most of his life as a simple government employee in the city. The discovery of Levon Hook occurred because of his hobby for microscopy, and with the compound microscope he had invented about a generation before his birth, but he did not use the well-known microscope, but he was able to sharpen and polish several lenses with short light lengths, so he made a stronger microscope than the known microscopes of his time and one of his remaining lenses until now It has a magnification power of 270 times, and there are indications that it was made stronger than these lenses as well.

Levon Hooke was observant, patient, and diligent. He possessed sharp eyesight and curiosity. With these finely made lenses, he examined all sorts of objects, from human hair to rainwater to small insects, as well as muscle fibres, skin tissues, and many other specimens. He took valuable notes. Several detailed drawings of the material he observed.

Beginning in 1673, he took the Royal Society in England, which was the leading scientific association in those days, despite his limited education (he did not go beyond primary school education and only knew his Dutch language). However, he was elected a member of the British Royal Society in 1680 and he also became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Levon Hawk was married twice and had six children, but no grandchildren. He enjoyed good health and was able to continue his work until his late years. Several personalities came to visit him, including Peter the Great, the Tsar of Russia and the Queen of England. He died in the city of Delft in the Netherlands in 1723 when he was ninety years old.

Levon Hooke made many valuable discoveries and was the first to describe animal sperm cells and one of the first to describe red blood cells. He opposed the theory of self-reproduction in the lower forms of living organisms and presented a lot of evidence against this theory and showed that the louse reproduces in the same way as insects with wings.

His greatest discoveries appeared in 1674 when he made his first observations about germs, and these observations were one of the greatest discoveries in the seeds of evolution in history.

Within a drop of water, Levon Hook discovered a whole new world. No one expected his presence when he was teeming with life, and these small creatures had the ability of life or death for human beings. It is the one that Levon Ho K was able to study microbes in several other places in wells and ponds, in rain water, and in the mouths and intestines of human beings. He described several types of bacteria according to their sizes.


The practical application of Levon Hook's discovery did not come until the advent of Pasteur after nearly two centuries, or rather until the nineteenth century when microscopes were better developed, but we cannot deny that Levon Hook discovered germs and through him scientists were able to recognize their existence.

Some of them believe that it was luck that helped Levon Hook to make his discovery, but this saying is untrue because his discovery of microscopic machines was after hard work, careful observation, patience and accuracy that only real scientists possess, meaning that his discovery was the result of skill and hard, continuous and patient work.

The discovery of germs is one of the few discoveries attributed to one person. Levon Hook worked alone, and his discovery of sperm and bacteria was unexpected, and this discovery would not have been his. Great in biological research applications is what made the author put Van Levon Hook among the members of the hundred.