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Leeuwenhoek was

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Dutch biologist
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Dutch cloth merchant
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British naturalist
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British amateur scientist
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The correct option is B Dutch cloth merchant
Science had recently emerged as a profession and yet it was an amateur who became a scientific celebrity throughout Europe. It was Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch merchant without university studies, who discovered microscopic life at the end of the 17th century.

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