Robert Hooke
English polymath
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Robert Hooke FRS 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... Wikipedia
Born: July 18, 1635, Freshwater, United Kingdom
Died: March 3, 1703 (age 67 years), London, United Kingdom
Discovered: Gamma Arietis
Known for: Hooke's law; Microscopy; Coining the term 'cell'
Education: Wadham College, Westminster School, and Christ Church
Parents: John Hooke and Cecily Gyles
Academic advisors: John Wilkins, Robert Boyle