In 1840, Jakob Henle had proposed microorganism infections caused diseases, and in 1875 German botanist Ferdinand Cohn weighed in on a controversy in microbiology by declaring that the elementary unit was the cell and that each form of bacteria was constant and naturally divided from the other forms.
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The central assumption behind his new derivation, presented to the DPG on 14 December 1900, was the supposition, now known as the Planck postulate, that electromagnetic energy could be emitted only in quantized form, in other words, the energy could only be a multiple of an elementary unit:
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Claiming discovery that the " molecular granulations " in biological fluids were actually the elementary units of life, B�champ named them " microzymas " that is, " tiny enzymes " and credited them with producing both enzymes and cells while " evolving " amid favorable conditions into multicellular organisms.
