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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, photo 1 of 3
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Portret van Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, RP-P-1903-A-23563
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Photo credit

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), bioloog, Bestanddeelnr 935-0856
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Anefo
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), bioloog, Bestanddeelnr 935-0857
By
Anefo
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列文虎克

Lièwénhǔkè
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  2. 2 Dutch microbiologist, father of microbiology

About Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

1632–1723 · 科学家 scientist

Dutch cloth merchant who ground his own lenses and built microscopes, and became the first to see and describe bacteria, sperm and other tiny life, which earned him the name father of microbiology.

Examples

HSK 7-9
列文虎克是第一个用显微镜观察到细菌的人。
Lièwénhǔkè shì dìyī gè yòng xiǎnwēijìng guānchá dào xìjūn de rén.
Van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe bacteria under a microscope.
HSK 7-9
他对生物学的兴趣始于读列文虎克的故事。
Tā duì shēngwùxué de xìngqù shǐyú dú Lièwénhǔkè de gùshi.
His interest in biology began with reading about Leeuwenhoek.

Tips

usage
Taiwan writes his name 雷文霍克; the mainland's 列文虎克 has a 虎 'tiger' in it purely for the sound. He found his 'little animals' on his own teeth and reported them in plain Dutch letters to London's Royal Society.

In Pop Culture

显微镜之父 xiǎnwēijìng zhī fù
Father of the microscope
Chinese textbooks often use this epithet for Van Leeuwenhoek, crediting him with revealing the microbial world.

Stroke Order

列 liè
文 wén
虎 hǔ
克 kè