Cell Theory Timeline

  • Period: Jan 31, 1575 to

    Cell Theory Timeline

  • Jansen

    Jansen

    He invented the first microscope.
  • Redi

    Redi

    He was the first to challenge the idea of spontaneous generation.
  • Hooke

    Hooke

    Hooke discovered a honeycomb-like network of cellulae
  • Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek

    He discovered bacteria and protoza. He also invented a microscope.
  • Trembley

    Trembley

    He discovered the hydra and described it scientifically.
  • Wolff

    Wolff

    He came up with a generalized cell theory.
  • Raspail

    Raspail

    He was the first to state that every cell came from another cell.
  • Dutrochet

    Dutrochet

    He decided that new cells arise from within old ones.
  • Turpin

    Turpin

    He affirmed cells and decided that plant cells were formed by aggomelaration
  • Mohl

    Mohl

    Mohl discovered protoplasm for the stuff in the cell.
  • Brown

    Brown

    He discovered the nucleus in plant cell.
  • Meyen

    Meyen

    Meyen believed the division of formed new cells.
  • Schleiden

    Schleiden

    He discovered all plant tissues are composed of cells and the embryonic plant arose from a single.
  • Schwann

    Schwann

    He decided that animal tissue WAS composed of cells.
  • Remak

    Remak

    He contributed that new animal cells came from bionary fission of preexisting cells.
  • Virchow

    Virchow

    He discovered that all cells develop only from existing cells
  • Pasteur

    Pasteur

    he built classic experiments with flasks and bacteria placement.
  • Mendel

    Mendel

    He discovered the central role of chromosomes.
  • Schneider

    Schneider

    He found the process of cell division.
  • Golgi

    Golgi

    He discovered the Golgi apparatus/body.