Science

 the first person to scientifically prove that large fossil bones found in Europe were from an extinct elephant was W. E. Tentzelius in 1698.

 The term "cell" was coined by Robert Hooke in 1665

  The term "biodiversity" was first coined by Walter G. Rosen in 1985

  The Dutch microbiologist Martinus Willem Beijerinck coined the term "virus" in 1898.