HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF CELLS

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/27/1665	ROBERT HOOKE	Examined a thin slice of cork from an oak tree. He described the cell as "small vacces"
08/08/1667	Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek	He continued to develop microscope. He observed 500 microscopes. He observed letters and then single-cell organisms.
08/07/1824	Henry Durochet	He proposedthat all living things are made up f cells.
08/07/1831	Robert Brown	He discovered nucleus ( a small dense, round body in the body in the cell).
08/07/1835	Felix Dujardin	He discoverd the internal substance ofthe cell which is sarcode.
08/07/1838	Matthias Schleiden	He proposed that all plants are composed of cells.
08/07/1839	Theodore Schwann	He proposed that all animals are made up of cells.
08/10/1839	Johannes Purkinje	He examined a jelly-like material in the cell and named it protoplasm.
08/07/1855	Rudolf Virchow	He discoverd the bacteria found inside the intestines (Escheuchia coli). He discovered cell division. He proposed that "cells come from pre-existing cells".