A head louse as microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek might have seen it (Image: Brian J. Ford) Who needs fancy electron microscopes when you've got the simple but ingenious hand-held ...

Google Doodle has marked the 384th birthday of scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - considered the world's first microbiologist who discovered sperm. Van Leeuwenhoek, was born today in 1632 ...

Henry Baker drew this illustration of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes in 1756. 1683: Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to Britain's Royal Society describing the "animalcules" he observed under ...

Anton van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to Britain's Royal Society describing the "animalcules" he observed under the microscope. It's the first known description of bacteria.