Cell Theory

  • Jansen

    Jansen
    Perfected frist compound microscope
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Robert Hooke
    -invented the word cell
    -first to observe plant cell
    -invented first compound microscope
  • Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek
    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    -first to observe red blood cell and sperm cell
  • Trembley

    Trembley
    Abraham Trembley
    -Observed cell division
    -demonstated that cells could reproduce asexully
  • Wolff

    Wolff
    Caspar friedrich wolff
    -came up with generalized cell theory
  • Turpin

    -observed cell division
  • Dutrochet

    Dutrochet
    Henri Dutrochet
    - found conection beetween plant and animal cells
    -proposed cells were basic unit of organized state
  • Meyen

    Meyen
    Cells are individual and cell division leads to new cells
  • Raspail

    Raspail
    François-Vincent Raspail
    -discovered cell reproduction
  • Brown

    Brown
    Robert Brown
    -discovered cell nucleus and cytoplasm
  • Schleiden

    Schleiden
    Proposed that every structural element of plants is composed of either cells or their products.
  • Schwann

    Schwann
    Theodor Schwann
    -proposed that animals in every structual element iss composed of cells or cell products
  • Mohl

    Mohl
    Acknowledged that the nucleus of the cell isn't attached to the cell
  • Remak

    Remak
    Robert Remak
    -Proved schwan wrong
    -stated that binary fusion was the way of reproduction in animals
  • virchow

    virchow
    concluded that all cells come from pre-existing cells
  • Pasteur

    Pasteur
    Proved that there was no spontaneouscreation of cells from non-living matter
  • Mendel

    Mendel
    Created Mendel's laws of inheritance
  • schneider

    schneider
    observed chromosones in cell during cell division
  • redi

    redi
    observed chromosones in a cell during division
  • Golgi

    Discovered the Golgi apparaus by staining technique called black reaction