Robert Hooke - English polymath!

Robert Hooke FRS was an English polymath active as a scientist and architect, who, using a microscope, was the first to visualize a micro-organism. An impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood, he found wealth and esteem by performing over half of the architectural surveys after London's great fire of 1666. Wikipedia

Born: July 18, 1635, Freshwater, United Kingdom

Died: March 3, 1703, London, United Kingdom

Discovered: Gamma Arietis

Known for: Hooke's law; Microscopy; Coining the term 'cell'

Alma mater: Wadham College, Oxford

Parents: John Hooke, Cecily Gyles

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