Henry Baker
Henry Baker
1698-1774
English naturalist who received the Copley gold medal in 1744 for his microscopic observations of salt particles in a solution. Baker wrote The Microscope Made Easy in 1743 and Employment for the Microscope in 1753. He is also credited for bringing the alpine strawberry and rhubarb to England.
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