Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover ...

Leeuwenhoek, who followed Hooke, never used a compound microscope. Indeed, the great outpouring of scientific work in this period depended on single lenses.

Barbara Rose Hooke, a Johns Hopkins cancer researcher who survived World War II and witnessed the destruction of Dresden, died Aug. 20 at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. She was 96 and formerly ...

The early volumes of the Royal Society Transactions contain in the papers of Boyle, Hooke, and Leeuwenhoek,published between the years 1663 and 1709,many records of attempts of this kind; and the ...

Zacharias and Hans Janssen developed the first microscope in the late 16th century. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek refined it, observing microscopic organisms in the 17th century.

In the late 17th Century, Anthony von Leeuwenhoek from Holland invented a single lens, hand-held microscope that could achieve a magnification of 270x.

Without the work of German physicist Hans Busch (1884-1973), development of electron microscopy would have been impossible. He was the first to show that a magnetic field could focus a beam of ...