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An informative documentary in five parts about the life of the 17th century microbiologist and microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and his discoveries in the field of micro-organisms.

UC Berkeley professor Jill Banfield was awarded the 2023 van Leeuwenhoek Medal from the Royal Netherlands Society for Microbiology, or the KNVM, making Banfield the first woman to receive the medal.

When Royal Society Secretary Henry Oldenburg asked Leeuwenhoek to look at semen, the Dutch draper initially did not reply “because he felt it was ‘unseemly.'” Despite living in the Dutch Republic ...