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HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF CELLS

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  • ROBERT HOOKE

    ROBERT HOOKE

    Examined a thin slice of cork from an oak tree.
    He described the cell as "small vacces"
  • Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek

    Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek

    He continued to develop microscope.
    He observed 500 microscopes.
    He observed letters and then single-cell organisms.
  • Henry Durochet

    Henry Durochet

    He proposedthat all living things are made up f cells.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown

    He discovered nucleus ( a small dense, round body in the body in the cell).
  • Felix  Dujardin

    Felix Dujardin

    He discoverd the internal substance ofthe cell which is sarcode.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    He proposed that all plants are composed of cells.
  • Theodore Schwann

    Theodore Schwann

    He proposed that all animals are made up of cells.
  • Johannes Purkinje

    Johannes Purkinje

    He examined a jelly-like material in the cell and named it protoplasm.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow

    He discoverd the bacteria found inside the intestines (Escheuchia coli).
    He discovered cell division.
    He proposed that "cells come from pre-existing cells".