cell timeline

  • Anton Vanleeuwenhoek

    Anton Vanleeuwenhoek
    considered the father of the microscope.
  • robert hooke

    robert hooke
    he discovered the law of elasticity.
  • Matthias Schledeiden

    Matthias Schledeiden
    concludes that all plants are made up of cells.
  • Theodor Shwann

    Theodor Shwann
    Theodor concludes that all animals are made up of cells.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    completes the cell theory becuase he claims that all cells come from existing cells.
  • Janet Plowe

    Shows that the cell membrane is a physical structure not an interface between two liquids
  • Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis
    proposes the idea that certain organelles, tiny structures within some cells, were once free-living cells themselves.