Leeuwenhoek

American  

[ley-vuhn-hook, ley-y-wuhn-hook] / ˈleɪ vənˌhʊk, ˈleɪ ü wənˌhuk /

Or Leuwenhoek

noun

1. Anton van 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.

---

Leeuwenhoek British  

/ ˈleːwənhuːk, ˈleɪvənˌhuːk /

noun

1. Anton van (ˈɑntɔn vɑn). 1632–1723, Dutch microscopist, whose microscopes enabled him to give the first accurate description of blood corpuscles, spermatozoa, and microbes

---

Leeuwenhoek Scientific  

/ lā′vən-hk′ /

1. Dutch naturalist and pioneer of microscopic research. He was the first to describe protozoa, bacteria, and spermatozoa. He also made observations of yeasts, red blood cells, and blood capillaries, and traced the life histories of various animals, including the flea, ant, and weevil.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Leeuwenhoek

Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered the world of bacteria through a microscope in the late seventeenth century, humans have tried to look deeper into the world of the infinitesimally small.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

And when sperm finally were formally discovered, by Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, he was so uncomfortable he wished he could unsee what he'd just observed.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023

To fix this, Leeuwenhoek designed his own strong lenses.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023

The microscopes we use today are far more complex than those used in the 1600s by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch shopkeeper who had great skill in crafting lenses.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

Leeuwenhoek took a single drop of water from a rain barrel and turned his microscope on it.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman