Francesco Redi
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Most Influential Person
Italian entomologist and poet
Why Is Francesco Redi Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.
