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Robert Hooke
Discovered a honeycomb-like network of celluade in cork slices. -
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered bacteria, sperm cells, blood cells, microscpoic protist, and much, much more. -
Wolff
Helped with DNA and transfer of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Greman physiologist reconized the animal cell. -
Abraham Trembley
Abraham Trembley studied and experimented with the hydra, a small, fresh water animal, in the eighteenth century.Trembley discovered that the polyp could produce separate and complete new animals after it had been cut in half. -
François-Vincent Raspail
One of the foundersof cell theory in biology. He discovered that every cell is devired from prexsisting cell. -
Robert Brown
Robert Brown first noticed that plant cells all contain a nucleus. -
René Joachim Henri Dutrochet
He studied osmosis, respiration, embryology, and the effect of light on plants. -
Robert Remak
He is best known for reducing Karl Ernst von Baer's four germ layers to three: the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm. He also discovered unmyelinated nerve fibres and the nerve cells in the heart sometimes called Remak's ganglia. -
Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen
Meyen believed that the division of previous cells formed new cells. Meyen died too young to contribute his ideas. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
He helped discover a lot of living things made up of cells. In 1838, he concluded that all plants are made up of cells. He helped with the theory 'All living things are composed of cells.' -
Hugo von Mohl,
He did studies on the plant cell, von Mohl developed the idea that the nucleus of the cell was within the granular. He is noted for his research on the nature of protoplasm and chlorophyll and on the physiology of higher plant forms -
Rudolph Virchow
Rudolph Virchow suggested that all cells come from pre-existing cells. People didn't understand that then. He also stated that not all plants are made up of cells,which eventually lead to the creation of the cell theory. -
Camillo Golgi
He studied nerve tissues and discovered the golgi body, which was named after him.
