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Dutch spectacle makers Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias Janssen invented a compound.
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Galileo Galilei developed a compound microscope with a convex and concave lens He was italian.
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Cornelius Drebbel presents, in London a compound microscope with two convex lenses.
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Robert Hooke was a british scientist and was the first man to see cells through a microscope. He saw the cells of cork which he remarked looked like honeycomb which is where the name cells derives from.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to see LIVE cells of algae spirogyra under a microscope. He named the moving cells animalcules- little animals.
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Ernst Ruska was a German physist who invented the electron transmission microscope.
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Max Knoll created the first prototype of the scanning electron microscope.
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Charles Oatley was the professor of eletrical engineering at cambridge university. He invented the scanning electron microscope.
