First Person In The World Who Discovered The Sperm Cells

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, father of microbiology

L. Small
3 min readSep 15, 2020
“Spermatozoon (disc-shaped head 5.1 µm by 3.1 µm and a tail 50 µm long)” by quapan is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Bacteria have been around for a long time on Earth and were called the first living things on Earth. The first scientist to study and describe these bacteria was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Because of that, he also became the first person in the world to observe sperm.

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L. Small

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