Cell Theory Timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
12/01/1595	Hans and Zacharias Janssen (brothers)	The invinted the telescope and compound microscope.
12/01/1663	Robert Hooke	In 1663 an English scientist, Robert Hooke, discovered cells in a piece of cork, which he examined under his primitive microscope. Actually, Hooke only observed cell walls because cork cells are dead and without cytoplasmic contents. Hooke drew the cells he saw and also coined the word CELL.
09/17/1683	Anton Van Leewenhoek	On September 17, 1683, Leeuwenhoek wrote to the Royal Society about his observations on the plaque between his own teeth, "a little white matter, which is as thick as if 'twere batter."
12/01/1831	Matthias Schleiden	Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory.
12/01/1836	Theodor Schwann	In 1836 he discovered in the gastric juice pepsin, a digestive enzyme for protein.
12/01/1847	Rudolph Virchow	n 1847, he and a colleague, Benino Reinhardt, founded the Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie (now known as “Virchow’s Archives”), which still survives as a leading journal of pathology.