Who discovered micro organisms first?

The existence of microscopic organisms was discovered during the period 1665-83 by two Fellows of The Royal Society, Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. In Micrographia (1665), Hooke presented the first published depiction of a microganism, the microfungus Mucor. read more

Anton von Leevonhoek discovered living microorganism first in tarter scraped from his teeth.He called them Animal Cule. read more

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, born in 1632, defied the odds with his discoveries, as he was relatively untrained in the sciences. Despite his lack of a formal education, he was the first person to observe and record single-cell organisms, bacteria, muscle fibers and spermatozoa. read more