Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was one of those people that we would never of thought to grow up to become a scientist. He came from a family of tradesmen. He had no fortune, received little to almost no education at all, and knew no other languages other than the language he was born with, which was Dutch. This would have been enough to exclude him from the occupation of a scientist completely. Yet with skill, carefulness, an endless curiosity, and an open mind to a whole new world, van Leeuwenhoek succeeded in making some of the most important discoveries in the history of biology.
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