列文虎克

lièwénhǔkè

noun

Meanings

1 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
2 Dutch microbiologist, father of microbiology

Characters

to arrange (here: phonetic 'Lee')

writing (here: phonetic 'wen')

tiger (here: phonetic 'hoek')

gram (here: phonetic 'k')

Examples

列文虎克是第一个用显微镜观察到细菌的人。

Lièwénhǔkè shì dì yī gè yòng xiǎnwēijìng guānchá dào xìjūn de rén.

Van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe bacteria under a microscope.

他对生物学的兴趣始于读列文虎克的故事。

Tā duì shēngwùxué de xìngqù shǐyú dú Lièwénhǔkè de gùshi.

His interest in biology began with reading about Leeuwenhoek.

Tips

history

A Dutch draper who ground his own lenses and built single-lens microscopes reaching 275x magnification. In the 1670s he described bacteria, protozoa, blood cells and sperm cells, earning him the title 'father of microbiology'. His letters to the Royal Society (London) are foundational biological texts.

In Pop Culture

显微镜之父 xiǎnwēijìng zhī fù

Father of the microscope

Chinese textbooks often use this epithet for Van Leeuwenhoek, crediting him with revealing the microbial world.

Stroke Order

列 liè

文 wén

虎 hǔ

克 kè