protozoology: Quick Facts

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Protozoan Microbiology Bacteriology virology

Key People

Oil painting by Jan Verkolje showing Antonie van Leeuwenhoek seated at a table with a globe, papers, inkstand, and a compass in hand, wearing a brown robe and white shirt.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch scientist

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Fritz Schaudinn

German zoologist

greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)

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