Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was an English polymath who was active as a physicist, astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time.
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Background
- Born in
- Freshwater
- Educated at
- University of OxfordChrist Church
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Robert Boyle🎓 Christopher Wren
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"About this time, 1655, having an opportunity of acquainting myself with astronomy by the kindness of Dr. Ward, I apply'd myself to the improving of the pendulum for such observations, and in the year …"
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1635
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Birth1703
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