Francesco Redi
Italian entomologist and poets
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Updated 2026-05-29
Francesco Redi proved maggots don't spontaneously appear—they come from fly eggs—and basically invented experimental biology while he was at it. Renaissance Italian physician-poet who turned parasitology into an actual science.
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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.
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